WWII-Europe

This is a photograph of the cover of the book. 

     The 751st landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on August 30th, approximately 84 days after D-Day. "At 1200 the battalion's tracks and vehicles rolled out of the LST's, up over the beach, through the dunes and mine-fields, past abandoned equipment and around shell craters, as more than one man tried to picture the hell in this place during the weeks after the 6th of June. Here, like gigantic symbols of America's power in mass production and abundance of what was needed, were great stockpiles of gasoline,ammunition and food, inspiring confidence in the most doubtful. Here was the sweat of the people back home-the power behind the blood and the iron fist at the front".

            "The battalion drove inland along narrow dirt roads between the hedgerows to a bivouac near St. Germain de Varreville. The next morning the battalion began its march to Dinard, a French seacoast town in the St. Malo area. Its mission was to hold siege on the Isle de Cezembre, a tiny island two miles off-shore at the mouth of the bay, where a well-provisioned German garrison offered a threat to the port area of St. Malo that had to be eliminated".

            "Going into position at Dinard about noon of the 31st, the second section of B Battery fired the battalion's first rounds in the ETO {European Theater of Operations}, in adjustment on the island. On the first of September the battalion opened fire. The following day everything up to 8 inch artillery and dive-bombing P-38s pounded the garrison until it surrendered".             

Actual clipping  my father saved out of the Stars and Stripes newspaper.