Wow!! That must have been a very moving experience. Thank you for your service. I had two uncles who were U.S. Army, and served overseas in WWII. My brother was U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam ‘66-67. The closest I got to WWII sites in France was visiting the D-Day Landing Beaches, and St. Laurent Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. Too old now to go back unfortunately. My great-uncle who served with Canada during WWI, and was killed two months before the Armistice, is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, in Wimille, France.
Whatever else we might think is wrong with the French, they do keep up war memorials very well.
What was most compelling:the engagement was captured on Signal Corps film from several angles. Those film clips captured the pain, fear and confusion of small unit actions. It was easy to visualize what that fight must have looked like and where the respective tanks were located, but I’m sure I looked pretty goofy standing on street corners looking for firing angles as the tourists wandered about.