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To: Homer_J_Simpson
[Continued from yesterday.]

9 February. A patrol from Company K, 128th Infantry, marching across country, received fire from light machine guns and rifles. Captain Mooney, CO of Company K, and 5 men were killed in this action. The rest of the patrol withdrew under heavy fire.

Several bridges washed out by heavy rains.

Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., The 32d Infantry Division in World War II

3 posted on 02/09/2014 5:00:21 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from February 5.

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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

4 posted on 02/09/2014 5:01:15 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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