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The 121st Infantry Regiment

WW2 Unit History

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• Chapter 1 - Regiment origin through sailing for France, 1944
• Chapter 2 (long) Ireland... into Normandy and the breakout - July 1944.
• Chapter 3 - Dinard and the lost battalion (Aug 1944)
• Chapter 4 - Brest, an unwelcome return
• Chapter 5 - Crozon, Blitzkreig American style
• Chapter 6 - The Hurtgen Forest, Hell with icicles
• Chapter 7 - Obermaubach - The battle for a dam
• Chapter 8 - The Roer to the Rhine
• Chapter 9 - The Rhur Pocket
• Chapter 10

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