THE FOURTH ARMORED DIVISION From The Beach to Bavaria, The Story of the Fourth Armored Division in Combat (Second edition)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 4to, 295 pgs, decorated endpapers, photo and other illustrations, text maps. Gilt titled cover and spine on tan cloth. Stated second edition printed in 1949. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor shelf soiling, light bump to corners. Interior is clean and tight. Original DJ is well worn , chipped, torn and tape repaired with inked name on cover; now in mylar sleeve. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 4th Armored Division landed at Utah Beach on July 13, 1944, a month after the D-Day invasion of the French Normandy coast. Within weeks, the "Breakthrough" division was sweeping across France. During the Battle of the Bulge, the unit provided badly needed support to the encircled US forces in Bastogne, Belgium. In late March 1945, the 4th crossed the Rhine River into central Germany and, by war's end, had reached the Czech border. On April 4, 1945, the "Breakthrough" division overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the first Nazi camp liberated by US troops. The 4th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1985. N° de ref. del artículo 0822019

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