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To: navysealdad

Awesome! Thank you!


2 posted on 05/04/2014 3:40:12 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

Great pictures. I believe though, that the tanks in the first picture are M-36 Tank Destroyers.


20 posted on 05/04/2014 3:56:43 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: Teacher317

The majority of the Battle of the Bulge took place in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - in the north where the Ardennes mountains are. It began in Bastogne, Belgium [where they is a wonderful memorial to our US Soldiers], then moved eastward as our 3rd Army under Gen. George Patton, pushed the German Panzer units out of Luxembourg. Then there was a resurgence of the German army, but eventually the US troops liberated northern Luxembourg a second time. The US had also liberated southern Luxembourg earlier in 1944.

If you drive the road from Bastogne through Wiltz, Diekirch, Clervaux, etc. you will see many museums and statues honoring the US Army and General Patton [who actually has his own museum. I think it is in Ettelbrueck].

The country of Luxembourg remains fiercely pro-USA to this day. The US Military Cemetery in Hamm has about 6,000 graves of American soldiers who died in Luxembourg during the long, cold winter of 1944-1945. Gen. George C. Patton is also buried there.


62 posted on 05/04/2014 6:03:32 PM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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