Here is a collection of remembrances of some of the intense actions and reactions in Normandy in connection with the Allied landings and the liberation of the country from the sea to St. Lo, and beyond, in 1944. Opening with recollections of airborne landings around St. Mere Eglise, the assaults on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach, the bombing of St. Lo, the focus shifts to the refugees driven from the homes by those actions. It concludes with a personal narrative of the combat operations of a U.S. infantry battalion in that area ...
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Here is a collection of remembrances of some of the intense actions and reactions in Normandy in connection with the Allied landings and the liberation of the country from the sea to St. Lo, and beyond, in 1944. Opening with recollections of airborne landings around St. Mere Eglise, the assaults on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach, the bombing of St. Lo, the focus shifts to the refugees driven from the homes by those actions. It concludes with a personal narrative of the combat operations of a U.S. infantry battalion in that area. Local residents and American soldiers alike, as they walked along those battle roads between hedges and orchards that had been such a natural habitat for birds, noticed the total absence of birds; thus, ?Les Routes Sans Oiseaux.? (Roads Without Birds) This then, comprises stories of some of the refugees of Normandy and the warfare that made them such.
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