This is the place wher the 2nd German roadblock was set. -- attachment is not available --

Moving quickly, the 3rd Btl and 100th Btl pushed off from Belmont in pitch darkness at 0400, 27 October. By 1000 hours they had passed through the rem...

THE RESCUE OF THE LOST BATTALION On the 26th of October, Colonel Pence was directed to relieve the 3rd Btl, 141st Infantry, with one Battalio...

On the afternoon of October 23, the 3rd Battalion finally broke through to free the 100th. Biffontaine, a farming hamlet of 300 people, with no rail l...

The next morning a Nisei litter train made up of medics from the 100th and the 3rd Btl, along with German prisoners scting as litter bearers, attempte...

Many had not slept for eight days. The casualties were piling up. Their cache of captured weapons had run out and the supply lines were again cut off....

BIFFONTAINE: Dahlquist ordered the 100th Btl to march east, more than a mile from the nearest friendly troops, and take the high ground overl...

With Bruyères in American hands, the next objective was Hill "D" east of town. The attack was launched at 1000 hours on October 19. Hill "D" fel...

Bullet holes in the church wall. -- attachment is not available --

The church of Bruyere -- attachment is not available --

This is Bruyere on April 18, 2009! As you can see not much has been changed. -- attachment is not available --

This is Bruyere on October 18, 1944 -- attachment is not available --

L Company of the 3rd Btl had also pushed into the north end of Bruyeres and was proceeding to a linkup with the 143rd Infantry, which had attacked the...

The former foxholes of the Germans Grenadiers can still be seen today. -- attachment is not available --

The following morning, all three battalions mounted a battering-ram attack behind a screen of fire from the 522nd Field Artillery Btl and other elemen...