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Following the 10th Armored: October 2014
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Following the 10th Armored. Monday, October 27, 2014. This is part three of a series that, over the next year, will follow my father's 10th Armored Division in World War II seventy years ago. While we are still in the time before they entered battle, let me give you more of the back story, this time by looking at the medical battalions in World War II. To start, there are a number of good websites out there about medics and medical detachments in history. One is the WW 2 US Medical Research Center. To es...
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Following the 10th Armored: April 2015
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Following the 10th Armored. Monday, April 27, 2015. 34 A Liberating Unit. According to the US Holocaust Museum:. As it [The Tenth Armored] drove into the heartland of Bavaria, the "Tiger" division overran one of the many subcamps of Dachau in the Landsberg area on April 27, 1945. The 10th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1985. US Soldier at Gate of Landsberg. USHM. Nichols, interestingly, do...
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Following the 10th Armored: December 2014
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Following the 10th Armored. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. 16 The Homefront at Year's End. Had a letter from Buddy and he sent me a dime for good luck. Beyond Dad thinking of her like that, there's not much else until later at the end of the war when he sent postcards which I still have. But that's a few months off. Dad, Grandma 6/1944. 12/31 – This is the last day in 1944. Gee, I hope 1945 will be better. Battle of the Bulge. 15 The Year- and the Siege- Ends. The 101st Airborne Division suffered battle c...
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Following the 10th Armored: July 2015
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Following the 10th Armored. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. 40 Fourth of July. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Height='219' id='Image1 img' src='http:/ 1.bp.blogspot.com/-qLDasurKtaw/VEc27ZoOMRI/AAAAAAAAErs/9vKUX2362mU/s1600/10th US Armored Division SSI.svg.png' width='260'/. Related Books of Interest. Impact: The Battle Story of George S. Patton's Spearhead Tenth Armored Division in Europe in World War II. Lester M. Nichols. John C. McManus. A Time for Trumpets: the Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge.
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Following the 10th Armored: 41. A Summer in Europe
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Following the 10th Armored. Sunday, August 2, 2015. 41 A Summer in Europe. Following the end of the War in Europe, the 10th Armored and my dad's attached 80th Medical Battalion were stationed in the Bavarian Alps region of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Nichols wrote:. Later in May the first of the Tigers began to be rotated home. Most stayed and new troops were rotated in to await orders home. The ISO brought entertainment; sports competitions were arranged across Europe; plush hotels were opened with nightclu...
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Following the 10th Armored: 44. The War is Over
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Following the 10th Armored. Friday, August 14, 2015. 44 The War is Over. This is part of a series following my father's 10th Armored Division in World War II seventy years ago. He was a medic with the 80th Medical Battalion assigned to the 10th Armored, part of Patton’s Third Army. From my grandmother's diary:. Everybody is excited- the war is over with Japan. And no one could have been happier than the men of the 10th and their families. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Related Books of Interest.
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Following the 10th Armored: August 2015
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Following the 10th Armored. Monday, August 24, 2015. 45 Moving Out, Heading Home. Two more entries in my grandmother's diary from August 1945:. 8/18- Sent Buddy a box of cigars and cigarettes. 8/24- Had a letter from Buddy. He is in Paris. Friday, August 14, 2015. 44 The War is Over. This is part of a series following my father's 10th Armored Division in World War II seventy years ago. He was a medic with the 80th Medical Battalion assigned to the 10th Armored, part of Patton’s Third Army. Here's the lea...
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Useful Links – TYNTESFIELD IN WWII
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Fran and Martin Collins. Fran and Martin Collins have written many books about some of the other 108 military hospitals that sprang up around Britain during the Second World War. Their books relate to those in the Midlands and Malverns: Return to Duty. About Brickbarns Farm, Merebrook and Wood Farm), Camp Foxley. Blackmere Park in World War Two. They Also Serve Who Stand and Wait. The Friendly Invasion of Leominster. Somewhere in the Midlands. And Letters for Victory. And the Blitz Buddies. Held on site ...
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Following the 10th Armored: 38. Feeling Better At Home
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Following the 10th Armored. Saturday, May 23, 2015. 38 Feeling Better At Home. May 23, 1945. The Entry in My Grandmother's Diary for the Day. Got a letter from Buddy that he wrote on VE Day. So now I feel better. Take this comment as a follow up to the one she wrote on VE Day:. O God just think of the mothers that their boys won’t be coming home. Today, she could feel better. What a relief! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Related Books of Interest. Lester M. Nichols. Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold...
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