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U.S. National D-Day Memorial Historical Markers
This series is intended to contain all the various plaques and memorial that are located on the grounds of the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.
By Brandon D Cross
110th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division Marker
The 110th Field Artillery (FA), the Maryland National Guard's senior artillery organization, traces its origin to 28 December 1915, when Battery A, Maryland FA, was activated at Pikesville. Upon America's April 1917 entry into World War I, Battery A . . . — — Map (db m240656) HM WM
The 115th Infantry was organized on 29 September 1881 as the 1st Battalion of Infantry, Maryland National Guard, from existing independent companies, including those at Hagerstown and Frederick. It was expanded and redesignated on 1 May 1886 as the . . . — — Map (db m241025) HM WM
Raised in 1741, the militia that became the 116th Infantry Regiment campaigned from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley against the Indians, the French, and the British. In 1861, that antecedent force grew into the first Virginia Brigade, Army of the . . . — — Map (db m241028) HM WM
A veteran regiment with service dating from the Civil War, the 12th Infantry was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division on 10 October 1941. After completing individual, unit, and maneuver training from 1942 through 1943, the Regiment deployed to . . . — — Map (db m240627) WM
Constituted on 3 May 1861, the 16th Infantry Regiment distinguished itself in the Civil War, Indian Wars, War with Spain, Philippine Insurrections, and World War I. Before Operation Overlord, the regiment had already served in the Big Red One's . . . — — Map (db m241634) HM WM
The 175th Infantry Regiment is one of the oldest military organizations in the United States. Founded on 3 December 1774 as the Baltimore Independent Cadets, it later became a component of the "Maryland Line" and fought in most of the major battles . . . — — Map (db m241018) HM WM
Constituted in May of 1861, the 18th Infantry Regiment served with distinction in twenty-three campaigns spanning the Civil War, Indian Wars, War with Spain, Philippine Insurrection, and World War 1. In World War II, the 18th Infantry took part in . . . — — Map (db m241678) HM WM
The 1st Engineer Special Brigade (ESB), which had served with distinction on Sicily under the command of Colonel Eugene Caffey, arrived in England in December of 1943 with the nucleus of its large organization. The 1st ESB headquarters brought with . . . — — Map (db m240748) WM
The 1st Special Service Brigade (SSB) established during World War II comprised elements of the Army and the Royal Marines (RM). Its separate units served in Norway and the disastrous pre-D-Day raid at Dieppe, France before coming together for . . . — — Map (db m241248) HM WM
Activated on 15 November 1942 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, as the 3rd battalion of the 510th Coast Artillery Regiment, the unit was redesignated the 225th Searchlight Battalion on 20 January 1943. Well trained and technically proficient, the 225th . . . — — Map (db m240177) WM
The 22nd Infantry Regiment served with distinction in a number of the nation's early conflicts before joining the 4th Infantry Division in 1923. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Regiment trained for two years before embarking for England in . . . — — Map (db m240622) HM WM
238th Engineer Combat Battalion
“Victoria per Construere”
Activated on 13 June 1942 as the Second Battalion of the 51st Engineer Combat Regiment, the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB) saw its first action of the Second World . . . — — Map (db m240386) HM WM
Constituted in 1901, the 26th Infantry Regiment served in the Philippine Islands, along the Mexican border, and in World War I. During the Second World War, the unit distinguished itself in the 1st Infantry Division’s amphibious assaults on and . . . — — Map (db m241940) HM WM
Constituted from National Guard units of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the 29th Infantry Division was activated on 25 August 1917 at Camp McClellan, Alabama. The Blue and Gray Division traces its antecedents to the . . . — — Map (db m241805) HM WM
320th Anti-Aircraft Balloon Battalion
Very Low Altitude (VLA)
The 320th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion (Colored) was activated at Camp Tyson, Tennessee, on 10 December 1942. All the enlisted men and seventeen of the . . . — — Map (db m240367) HM WM
Constituted in 1917, the 325th Infantry Regiment served as part of the 82nd Division during World War 1, earning campaign credits for hard-fought actions at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne. Soon after the United States entered World War II, the . . . — — Map (db m240645) HM WM
Constituted in 1917, the 321th Infantry Regiment served as part of the 82nd Division during World War I, earning campaign credits for hard-fought actions in France. The 321th returned to active duty soon after America's entry into World War II. On . . . — — Map (db m240640) WM
Constituted in 1917, the 359th Infantry Regiment served in several hard-fought campaigns during World War I. Recalled to active service in March 1942, it was reorganized at Camp Barkeley, Texas, and assigned to the 90th Infantry Division. The . . . — — Map (db m240639) HM WM
Organized in September 1942, the 411th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion trained at Camp Davis, North Carolina before being dispatched overseas to the European Theater of Operations in January 1944. On D+2, the 411th landed with their 90mm guns . . . — — Map (db m240178) HM WM
Formed in March 1944 around a nucleus of well-trained units drawn from the Royal Marines (RM), the 4th Special Service Brigade (SSB) would land at Normandy on 6 June 1944 and later take part in the Battle of the Scheldt and the Walcheren Islands . . . — — Map (db m241310) HM WM
With Colonel Howard R. "Jumpy" Johnson commanding, the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) was constituted and activated at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, on 15 November 1942. Under Col. Johnson, the unit participated (with paratroopers crying out . . . — — Map (db m240647) HM WM
Activated on 1 July 1941, the 502nd Parachute Infantry Battalion became a three battalion parachute infantry regiment (PIR) on 2 March 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia, with Colonel George Van Horn Moseley Jr. commanding. Col. Moseley led the Regiment . . . — — Map (db m240597) WM
Constituted as the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1942, the Regiment became part of the 82nd Airborne Division (ABD) in February 1943. Led by Colonel James M. Gavin, the 505th PIR was reinforced by . . . — — Map (db m240537) HM WM
Activated on 20 July 1942 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) came on line under the command of Colonel Robert F. Sink, who remained commander throughout its service. Early in its training near Currahee Mountain in . . . — — Map (db m240607) WM
Constituted as the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), the unit was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, on 20 July 1942. After conducting basic and advanced airborne training in the United States as part of the 1st Airborne Brigade, the . . . — — Map (db m240525) HM WM
Constituted as the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) and activated at Camp Blanding, Florida, on 20 October 1942 with Colonel Roy E. Lindquist commanding, this unit completed basic training and moved to Ft. Benning, Georgia, for parachute . . . — — Map (db m240589) WM
A first-line Territorial Army Division peopled by miners and shipbuilders from the region of northeastern England bounded by the Rivers Tyne and Tees (hence the TT shoulder patch), the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division was organized on 3 . . . — — Map (db m241601) HM WM
Organized in the United Kingdom in November 1943 from the 1119th Engineer Combat Group, the 5th Engineer Special Brigade (ESB) was composed primarily of three attached engineer combat battalions, the 37th, 336th, and 348th Enginers. Each of those . . . — — Map (db m241613) HM WM
The 6th Engineer Special Brigade (ESB) was formed in January of 1944 from the 1116th Engineer Combat Group (147th, 149th, and 203rd Engineer Combat Battalions). Colonel Paul Thompson assumed command of the 10,000-man unit soon thereafter. The . . . — — Map (db m240793) HM WM
On 15 March 1942, the War Department activated the 761st Tank Battalion (Light) at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. The battalion's 36 officers and 593 enlisted men moved to Camp Hood, Texas, to train and convert to M4A3 Sherman tanks. On 10 October 1944, . . . — — Map (db m240462) HM WM
Constituted on 5 July 1838, the 8th Infantry Regiment had distinguished itself long before its assignment to the 4th Division on 24 March 1923. On D-Day the constricted landing area on Utah Beach compelled the division to attack in a column of . . . — — Map (db m240613) HM WM
Activated on 15 February 1944 at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, as the 91st Chemical Battalion Motorized, the battalion was redesignated the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion on 22 February 1944. Lt. Col. Roy Muth assumed command on that day and . . . — — Map (db m240470) HM WM
Though not used in connection with the D-Day landing in France, the restored L-3 "Grasshopper" (thus nicknamed for its similarity to the insect) displayed here does bear the variegated markings of the Allied Air Forces. Alluded to in the granite . . . — — Map (db m242020) HM WM
Annie J. Bronson was born in Kansas, the daughter of a Union Army Officer. Her father was in Abraham Lincoln's Army during the Civil War. She was not politically active in Massachusetts and had never been to Virginia, but was "fiercely patriotic," a . . . — — Map (db m241706) HM WM
William Arthur Tedder
11 July 1890 - 3 June 1967
Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF)
While reading history at Cambridge (1913), Arthur Tedder secured a commission in the Dorsetshire Regiment. Injured . . . — — Map (db m240287) HM WM
Most of the 1,100 officers and men of the Royal Australian Volunteer Naval Reserve who took part in Operation Neptune on D-Day did so aboard British ships. Some also served as commanders of one of several landing flotillas or motor torpedo boats. . . . — — Map (db m240076) HM WM
Bernard Law “Monty” Montgomery
17 November 1887 - 24 March 1976
Commander, 21st Army Group
Bernard Montgomery attended the King's School, Canterbury; St.
Paul's School, London; and Royal Military Academy. He joined the Royal . . . — — Map (db m240257) HM
20 January 1883 ~ 2 January 1945
Naval Commander, in Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force
Entering the Royal Navy from Colchester Royal Grammar School in 1898, Bertram Ramsay rose to midshipman a year later. His first . . . — — Map (db m240289) WM
The WWII generation grew to appreciate the practical nature of Quonset huts, or Q huts, as they were called by the millions acquainted with them. These pre-fabricated buildings of WWII, seen on military bases across the nation and in both theaters . . . — — Map (db m241558) HM WM
Quonset huts met a critical need for the WWII generation. With millions returning home from service after the war, the country faced the worst housing shortage in its history. According to an article printed in 1946 by Popular Science . . . — — Map (db m243139) HM WM
On D-Day 15,000 troops in Canada's 3rd Infantry
Division landed on Juno Beach under the operational control of the British 1st Corps. The Royal Canadian Air Force committed 39 strategic and tactical squadrons on D-Day, flying 230 sorties of the . . . — — Map (db m240071) HM WM
Around 1820, Anthony Bunn Johnson established a printing and book-binding business at Birmingham, England. The firm prospered under Johnson and his heirs, relocating to Harborne in 1897 as Johnson Brothers Ltd. Sited near a small stream called Chad, . . . — — Map (db m240332) HM WM
January 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill accompanied by their senior military-poltical advisors, gathered at Casablanca, Morocco, to settle on a strategy for the defeat of Germany. Despite profound . . . — — Map (db m240308) WM
Clement Richard Attlee
3 January 1883 - 8 October 1967
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1945 - 1951
Clement Attlee, read history at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1904. He joined the Independent Labor Party in 1908 and . . . — — Map (db m240672) HM WM
Medics in World War II were the front line of battlefield medicine. Typically a battalion of some 400 to 500 men would have about thirty medics or aidmen; although later in the campaign, attrition often made that number much smaller. Their job was . . . — — Map (db m241201) WM
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Dedicated To The Recipients Of The Nation's Oldest Military Decoration "The Purple Heart" Combat Wounded Veterans Military Order of the Purple Heart 1782 - 1932 My stone is red for the blood they . . . — — Map (db m241800) WM
One of twelve letter companies of the 29th Infantry Division's 116 Infantry Regiment, Company A, under the command of Captain Taylor N. Fellers, landed in gray dawn at H-Hour, 0630, on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach. One of the six assault . . . — — Map (db m241472) HM WM
Called up from Lynchburg, Virgina, to become another of the twelve letter companies in the 29th Infantry Division's 116th Infantry Regiment, Company B, under the command of Captain Ettore V. Zappacosta, was scheduled to land on the Dog Green sector . . . — — Map (db m241478) HM WM
Inducted into federal service at its Virginia National Guard armory in Harrisonburg on 3 February 1941, Company C, 116th Infantry, trained in England for twenty months to prepare for its pivotal role on Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Commanded . . . — — Map (db m240893) HM WM
Presidential Unit Citation, French Croix de Guerre with Palm
Formed at Roanoke, Virginia, Company D of the 116th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Captain Walter O. Schilling, was one of four infantry companies in the 116th Regiment . . . — — Map (db m241452) HM WM
Federalized at Chase City, Virginia, on 3 February 1941, Company E, 116th Infantry, moved to Ft. Meade, Maryland, for training then sailed for Great Britain on HMS Queen Mary in October 1942 to continue training and begin preparing for its . . . — — Map (db m240914) HM WM
Activated in South Boston, Virginia, Company F, under the command of Captain William R. Callahan, was one of four infantry companies to land at H-Hour, 0630, in the 116th Infantry's first-wave assault on Omaha Beach. Its mission was to secure the . . . — — Map (db m241314) HM WM
Federalized from Farmville, Virginia, on 3 February 1941, Company G, commanded by Captain Eccles H. Scott, was one of three companies of the 116th Intantry's Second Battalion to assault Omaha Beach in the first wave. Slated to land in Dog White . . . — — Map (db m241316) HM WM
Mobilized by proclamation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 3 February 1941, members of Company H, 16th Infantry, reported to their Virginia National Guard armory in Martinsville for what was supposed to be one year of active service, but which . . . — — Map (db m240908) HM WM
On 3 February 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a decree calling the 29th Infantry Division into active service for one year, which became five. Responding to that call, National Guardsmen from Frederick County, Virginia, and nearby areas . . . — — Map (db m241467) HM WM
Federalized from Charlottesville, Virginia, on 3 February 1941, Company K, commanded by Captain William G. Pingley Jr., was one of four companies of the 116th Infantry's Third Battalion to land at Omaha Beach in the third wave. The six approaching . . . — — Map (db m241318) HM WM
Mobilized on 3 February 1941 by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, citizen-soldiers of Company L, 116th Infantry, reported to their Virginia National Guard armory at Staunton for a year's active service plus another four added by the bombing . . . — — Map (db m241325) HM WM
On 3 February 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt mobilized the 29th Infantry Division for a year's active service. Peopled by citizen soldiers from Greenville County and other Virginia locales nearby, Company M of the 116th Infantry Regiment . . . — — Map (db m240901) HM WM
The Free Czechoslovakian Army's 1st Armored
Brigade did not deploy to Normandy until several weeks after the Allied landing, but the four Free Czechoslovakian squadrons that flew with the Royal Air Force all took part in D-Day. The colors flown
at . . . — — Map (db m240070) HM WM
Instituted on 19 September 1945, the Deltakermedaljen (Defense Participation Medal 1940-1945) was awarded to members of the Norwegian military and merchant marine as well as to eligible allies and civilians who participated in combat or . . . — — Map (db m240437) WM
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower
14 October 1890 - 28 March 1969
Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, Operation Overlord
A member of "the class the stars fell on," Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from the United . . . — — Map (db m240230) HM WM
Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 1900-1949, was an American industrialist and statesman, After studies at the Pomfret School and University of Virginia, he entered industry, becoming a vice president of General Motors (1931) and Chairman of the Board . . . — — Map (db m240356) HM WM
Constituted as VIll Bomber Command to support the invasion of North Africa, the Mighty Eighth was officially born in Savannah, Georgia, on 29 January 1942. Securing approval from the War Department to activate an air force as part of the U.S. Army . . . — — Map (db m241217) WM
The Hon. Elmon T. Gray's service with the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, in the Senate of Virginia from 1972 through 1992, to the National D-Day Memorial, and for the broad advancement of philanthropy . . . — — Map (db m241549) HM WM
Operation Overlord with its naval component, Operation Neptune, was the largest combined-arms endeavor in history. On D-Day, 6 June 1944 tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen and merchant seamen from twelve . . . — — Map (db m243198) HM WM
In February 1944, soon after the arrival of Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery in England to lead Operation Overlord, planning for the D-Day invasion accelerated and expanded. To the three Norman beaches already selected as invasion sites, they . . . — — Map (db m240329) HM WM
One of two battalions that on D-Day made up the Provisional Ranger Group (PRG) under the command of Lt. Col. James E. Rudder, the Fifth Ranger Battalion was activated at Camp Forest, Tennessee, on 1 September 1943. For the landing, the PRG was . . . — — Map (db m241873) HM WM
Constituted in May of 1917 from active Army units serving throughout the United States, the First Expeditionary Division was officially organized on 8 June 1917. Transported to Europe six days later, it was designated the First Division on 6 July . . . — — Map (db m241869) HM WM
The four chaplains giving the National D-Day Memorial field chapel its name were among 4 soldiers, merchant seamen, naval armed guard, coast guardsmen, and civilian workers embarked for Greenland aboard USAT Dorchester . At 0100 hours on 3 . . . — — Map (db m241069) HM WM
Officially organized on 10 December 1917 at Camp Greene, North Carolina, the Fourth Infantry Division was constituted from Regular Army units. The Ivy Division joined the Allied Expeditionary Force and served with distinction in five World War I . . . — — Map (db m240777) HM WM
France contributed three fighter groups and four bomber groups to the Allied Expeditionary Air Force on D-Day.
Two French cruisers and a destroyer took part in the naval bombardment, and French frigates, corvettes, and submarine chasers performed . . . — — Map (db m240063) HM WM
In the United Kingdom, the next of kin of British service members killed during the Second World War received a Memorial Scroll. Beneath the royal emblem of King George VI, appeared this text:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30 January 1882-12 April 1945
32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945
In his first inaugural address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) told a nation mired in the Great Depression "the only thing . . . — — Map (db m240223) HM WM
Taking its nickname from the Corsican expression for the underbrush outlaws hid in, the FFI was a loose alliance of French Resistance movements including, among others, Francs Tireurs et Partisans, Organisation Civile et Militaire, Libération-Nord, . . . — — Map (db m241594) HM WM
General Leonard T. Gerow (1888-1972)
Chief, War Plans Division and Assistant Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army (1941-1942); Commanter, 29th Infantry Division (1942-1943); Commander V Corps (1943-1945); Commander, 15th Army (1945); . . . — — Map (db m240879) HM WM
General of the Army George C. Marshall (1880-1959)
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1939-1945), Secretary of State (1947-1949)
President, American Red Cross (1949-1950), Secretary of Defense (1950-1951)
Nobel Peace Prize (1953)
A . . . — — Map (db m240418) HM WM
11 November 1885 ~ 21 December 1945
“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
As Commanding General of the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG), Lt. Gen. George S. Patton made a singular contribution to the Allied success on D-Day. . . . — — Map (db m240303) HM WM
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A tribute to
Gold Star Mothers, Fathers, and Relatives
who sacrificed a Loved One for our Freedom.
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Homeland, Family, Patriot, Sacrifice — — Map (db m241530) WM
By design separate and modest in scope, this garden exists to recognize the irreplaceable loss experienced by families whose parents, children, spouses, and siblings die in battle. Planted away from the components of the Memorial that deal with the . . . — — Map (db m241967) HM WM
Limiting its naval and military commitment primarily to the Balkans and Mediterranean, Greece nevertheless did deploy two Royal Hellenic Navy corvettes for Operation Neptune. Those vessels escorted convoys to Juno, Gold, and Sword Beaches. As was . . . — — Map (db m240018) HM WM
Harry S. Truman
8 May 1884 - 26 December 1972
33rd President of the United States, 1945 - 1953
The only president to have experienced combat in World War I, Harry S. Truman gave up his artillery captaincy at war's end. He . . . — — Map (db m240352) HM WM
Chief of Staff, Hawaiian Department (1941-1942); Commander, 25th Infantry Division (1942-1943); Commander VIl Corps (1944-1945); Chief of Army Information (1945-1947);
Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (1947-1949): Chief of Staff, U.S. Army . . . — — Map (db m242019) HM WM
Joseph Stalin
21 December 1879 - 5 March 1953
General Secretary of the Communist Party
In 1922, Joseph Stalin became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and spent the next seven years . . . — — Map (db m240663) HM WM
Perhaps inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's homey metaphor of a person lending a neighbor a garden hose to extinguish his burning house then getting it back when the fire is out, the initiative that came to be known as Lend Lease was . . . — — Map (db m240806) HM WM
One of the major components of the National D-Day Memorial, Lawhorne Circle, named for Lieutenant Maurice T. Lawhorne, Army Air Force, recognizes the service and contributions of the Allied Air Forces in support of the Normandy landing and Operation . . . — — Map (db m242033) HM WM
Médaille commémorative de la guerre
Of Belgium's military medals for the Second World War, the Médatile commémorative de la guerre 1940-1945 had the broadest circulation. Established on 16 February 1945, the War Commemorative Medal . . . — — Map (db m240426) HM WM
Military Police (MP) Platoons
Normandy, France, June - August 1944
The Military Police Corps is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the United States Army. At Normandy, as for other combat operations, MP platoons had the . . . — — Map (db m240389) HM WM
Following the disastrous raid at Dieppe on the French coast in August 1942, Allied commanders realized that while a port would be essential to any invasion of occupied France, it need not necessarily be wrested from enemy hands. Instead, the idea of . . . — — Map (db m241116) HM WM
The modest Dutch military force that escaped to England when the Netherlands fell did not participate in Operation Overlord. A cruiser, HMNS Sumatra, and two gunboats did represent the Dutch Navy in Operation Neptune. The two gunboats fired . . . — — Map (db m240038) HM WM
>br>About 30,000 members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were in Operation Overlord. Squadrons of New Zealand's fighters and bombers flew in every phase, the former performing with particular efficacy above Omaha Beach on D-Day. Some 4,000 . . . — — Map (db m240047) HM WM
Since the commencement of World War II, the New Zealand Memorial Cross has been presented to the next of kin of the New Zealand servicemen and women killed during war service, operational service overseas, or who later died of wounds received in the . . . — — Map (db m240431) HM WM
Organized at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, on 18 July 1918, the 9th Infantry Division was the last Regular Army division activated for World War I. It disbanded on 15 February 1919. Reactivated on 1 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the division . . . — — Map (db m240172) HM WM
Established at Bowman Field, Kentucky, as V Air Support Command on 21 August 1941 and activated on 1 September, the fledgling unit was redesignated 9th Air Force on 8 April 1942 and assigned, on 22 July 1942, to Bolling Field, Washington, DC. On 18 . . . — — Map (db m241237) HM WM
Ten warships of the Royal Norwegian Navy in exile took part in Operation Neptune. The Svenner! a brand new destroyer, was struck midship by a German torpedo at H-1 and went down in a quarter-hour. The Norwegian Merchant Navy also committed . . . — — Map (db m240052) HM WM
Omar Nelson Bradley
12 February 1893 - 8 April 1981
Commanding General, United States First Army
A 1915 graduate of the United States Military Academy, Omar Bradley was first among the fifty-nine general officers in "the class the stars . . . — — Map (db m240251) HM WM
Activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, on 15 August 1942 to become the U.S. Army's second division of airborne infantry, the "Screaming Eagles" came into being under the command of Brig. Gen. William C. Lee, who told his troops, "the 101st has no . . . — — Map (db m240785) HM WM
Operation Fortitude stands out as one of the most vital contributions made by the Allied staff during the planning and preparation for the D-Day invasion. Formulated as a plan "to induce the enemy to make faulty dispositions in northwest Europe . . . — — Map (db m240304) HM WM
Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, the French National Order of the Legion of Honor recognizes meritorious service to the French republic. The order is open to military personnel and civilians, citizens and foreigners, men and women alike, . . . — — Map (db m241987) HM WM
Mindful of Germany's September 1, 1939
invasion of Poland, the government-in-exile was eager for its forces to participate in D-Day. Polish ground troops did not deploy until later, but the Polish Wing of the 84th Royal Air Force Group and a Polish . . . — — Map (db m240057) HM WM
Purple Heart
By order issued at his headquarters at Newburgh, New York, 7 August 1782, General George Washington designated the Purple Heart as the Army's Badge of Military Merit. He presented it to three sergeants, and it was not . . . — — Map (db m240419) HM WM
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