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To: Pikachu_Dad

I forget the name of the division, but the whole outfit was killed, wounded, or captured before it was over. with the centuries of history, who ever decided the Ardennes would ever be a quiet sector?


20 posted on 05/01/2014 9:27:03 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

Perhaps you are thinking of the 28th ID, who got mauled in the hedgerows, again in the Hurtgen Forest and once again buying time for the Airborne to make history at Bastogne?

My dad was a BAR gunner in the 110th Regiment of the 28th. He was proud of what he did, but always said that the official history of the war was written by the same rear echelon types who decided that the Hurtgen Forest was a good place for an attack and the Germans would never come through the Ardennes again, and was thus highly suspect.


32 posted on 05/02/2014 12:27:25 AM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Retain Mike

I believe you are thinking about the 106th Division, the Golden Lions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/106th_Infantry_Division_%28United_States%29


34 posted on 05/02/2014 5:08:29 AM PDT by NCDragon ( Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives. WC)
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