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Even today, the division's 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is known as the "Stonewall Brigade" after being led by rebel Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
Thousands of soldiers with the 29th Infantry Division were among the first wave of troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in the U.S.-led invasion of France in 1944.
When the doors to the landing craft opened, entire units were killed almost instantly by dug-in German forces. Scores of the division's troops were among the 3,000 killed in the opening hours of the assault on Fortress Europe in one of the most gruesome and heroic battles in U.S. military lore and immortalized in the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan."
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now, as we speak the 116th is mobilized to go to kosovo and africa. years ago they took her patch, which was stonewall on a horse on a hill, replaced with the yin yang. its never enough for those that seek to tear down.
ReplyDeleteits never enough for those that seek to tear down.
DeleteThanks and agreed.