Word: l6
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 6, 1944. Under Major General Clarence Huebner, the ist landed in Normandy, and will never forget it. The blood of foot soldiers reddened the sands of "Omaha Beach"; more than 740 men of one battalion were awarded the Bronze Star. Later the division took part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared Bonn, then plunged south to join the bridgehead...
...with rehearsals in Africa and Sicily, landed in Normandy last year and roared into the ruptured German lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, the 13th, the 14th, the 16th, and the 20th - dashed off the edges of operational maps, slashed into Germany's heart. As uppity as all armored units (they speak pityingly of "the poor goddam in fantry"), they had never forgotten that...