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Jun 12
82 years ago today, Easy Company enters the town of Carentan. 🪖
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In June of 1944, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. in his Jeep 'Rough Rider' near the front lines in Normandy. 🪖
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“Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Marines.”
-Eugene Sledge 🪖
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This sidewalk in Carentan, France is covered with American flags and 101st Airborne logos and I can’t get enough of it. 🇺🇸
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It’s been over 25 years and I’m still not over Pvt. Jackson not making it out of the bell tower. 😭
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In June of 1944, men of the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment enter Place de la République in Carentan, France. 🪖
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In June of 1944, soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division march through the liberated French village of Colleville-sur-Mer. 🪖
@colour_history
on the colorization 🎨
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82 years ago, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division move through the town of Carentan, France. 🪖
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In June of 1944, glider troops of the 101st Airborne Division patrol the streets of Carentan, France. 🪖
@marinamaral2 on the colorization 🎨
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Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division display a Nazi flag captured at Marmion Farm near Utah Beach. 🪂
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82 years ago today, Harry Welsh & John McGrath of Easy Company knock out a German StuG Ill during the Battle of Bloody Gulch outside of Carentan. 🇺🇸
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Jun 13
Paratroopers with the 101st Airborne Division advance through Ste. Marie-du-Mont on their war to assault Carentan the day before their attack. 🪖
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Jun 13
82 years ago today, Easy Company’s Ed Tipper is wounded by a mortar round in Carentan. 🪖
His right eye was destroyed & both legs broken. Tipper was sent to a hospital in England, where his right eye was removed. His war was over. 🇺🇸
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Jun 13
82 years ago today, Albert Blithe is wounded by sniper fire after volunteering for a patrol outside of Carentan. 🪖
Dick Winters sets the record straight on Blithe’s hysterical blindness, being wounded, and his life after World War II.
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Jun 13
If you can place this photograph, you’re my kind of people. 😎
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Jun 12
Easy Company’s Forest Guth-stands with his rifle on the road to Carentan, France. 🪖
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Jun 12
In June of 1944, soldiers assigned to a cannon company in the 90th Infantry Division fire an M3 105 mm howitzer during fighting near Carentan, France. 🪖
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Jun 12
The bad news is Easy Company’s Carwood Lipton was wounded 82 years ago today. 💜
The good news is “everything was right where it should be.” 🪖
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Jun 12
82 years ago today, Easy Company's Pvt. Tipper was severely wounded by a German mortar shell.
The explosion resulted in the loss of his right eye, both of his legs being broken, and extensive shrapnel wounds.
Joe Liebgott and Harry Welsh helped him to an aid station. Tipper then spent a year in Army hospitals before his discharge in August 1945
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Jun 12
Dick Winters was wounded 82 years ago today in Carentan…what a leader. 😎
- 2 combat jumps 🪂
- 4 Campaign Stars ⭐️
- CIB 🪖
- Distinguished Service Cross 🇺🇸
- 2 Bronze Stars 🎖️
- Purple Heart 💜
- French Croix de Guerre 🇫🇷
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