One tough Cookie
"The Super Sixth" / ’40-’45 The 6th Armored Division was created February 15, 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky and was made up almost entirely of citizen draftee soldiers. Its training stations were Camp Chaffee, Ark., Louisiana Maneuvers, the Mojave Desert, and Camp Cooke, CA. It arrived in England in February 1944 and landed at Utah Beach on July 18, 1944. During the next 9 1/2 months, the 6th Armored fought in five major European campaigns of World War II: * Normandy; * Northern France…
Private, 8th Infantry Regiment. Montebourg, June 7-10, 1944
Figure study of a US infantry Private wearing the uniform and equipment seen during the fighting in Normandy in the Summer of 1944. From: Osprey Publishing's- Combat 15, US Infantryman v German Infantryman PRICE: £190.00 (unframed) SIZE: Image approx. H 30 cm x W 18cm (H 12 x W 7 inches) MEDIUM: Water colour
Colorized World War II pictures.
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