To Belgium and back with the 79th Infantry Division, 31 Aug to 25 Oct, 1944 /
Shows towns, river, forests, along the route of the U.S. Army 79th Infantry Division as it broke out of the Seine Bridgehead, advancing toward Belgium 31 August 1944, "battered across to the first Moselle Bridgehead ... [and] on Oct 24, after 127 days of continuous combat ... was relieved and m...
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
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[not before 1945]
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchives.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16630coll2/id/1518 |
| Summary: | Shows towns, river, forests, along the route of the U.S. Army 79th Infantry Division as it broke out of the Seine Bridgehead, advancing toward Belgium 31 August 1944, "battered across to the first Moselle Bridgehead ... [and] on Oct 24, after 127 days of continuous combat ... was relieved and moved into assembly south of Luneville [France]." |
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| Item Description: | Map no. 2 [of 4]. Cartographer names from facsimile signatures lower right corner. Printed in large outline letters in margin surrounding map (reading clockwise): Seine Bridgehead, Drocourt, St Just, Montdidier, Clery, St Amand, Belgium, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Soissons, Reims, Jonville, Neufchateau, Mirecourt, charmes, Bayon, St Germain, Gerberviller, Frambois, Luneville, Croismat, Parroy, Embermen. Illustrated with five colored vignettes, a long line of American troops in trucks and on tanks pursuing fleeing German soldiers, a small picture of the facade of Reims cathedral, a halted convoy of American supply trucks and soldiers, a large group of surrendering German soldiers with the commander offering his revolver butt first, American troops fighting in a thick woods. "Maj Gen I.T. Wyche, Commanding." |
| Physical Description: | 1 map : color ; 67 x 86 cm |