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Events 29/11/2024

Thanksgiving 1944

Banner photo: Corporal Leo Kaller enjoying a Thanksgiving turkey in November 1944 (Wikimedia Commons/Us Army) After the difficulties encountered during the Battle of Normandy, and the...

Events 24/08/2024

The Dronne Column and the Liberation of Paris

It was led by Captain Raymond Dronne, a veteran of the North African campaigns who had been ordered by Leclerc to return to Paris on 24 August. It included an engineer section, two infantry sections...

Battles 15/08/2024

Operation Dragoon

80 years ago, the Provence Landings, code-named Dragoon, formerly known as Anvil, took place. For this operation, on the airborne side, the 1st Airborne Task Force, created especially for the...

News 12/05/2023

79th anniversary of D-Day

The programs of the organizations related to tourism in Normandy useful to organize yourself (a lot of information overlaps from one program to another obviously): And last but not least, the...

News 04/05/2023

The official poster for the 79th anniversary of D-Day

The programs of the organizations related to tourism in Normandy useful to organize yourself (a lot of information overlaps from one program to another obviously): And last but not least, the...

Events 13/04/2023

The United States declaration of war of April 6, 1917

Why did the United States enter World War I so late? Two and a half years after the beginning of the war, just 106 years ago, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress declared war on the German Empire....

Augusta Chiwy

Battles 21/12/2022

Augusta Chiwy, "The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne"

The siege of Bastogne took place in atrocious conditions: the american troops were completely encircled by a huge german army, and had to face them 1 against 5 ; these same troops severely lacked...

Battles 17/12/2022

The Malmedy massacre

The Kampfgruppe Peiper was a ferocious armored unit notably composed of 5,000 SS Panzer Grenadiers, 40 new Mark V Panther tanks, 40 Mark IV Panzer tanks, 15 Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers, 42 King...

Battles 16/12/2022

The departure of the american airborne troops for the Bulge, december 1944

The day following the start of the Battle of the Bulge, in the evening of the 17th December, general Eisenhower decides to send the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions (who were until this point in...

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