The 508th PIR's bloody 4th July

4th July 1944: As casualties amongst officers mount ever higher, the regiment must attack 'a well-armed foe, dug in on higher ground'

Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (left), Commanding General, U.S. First Army, listens as Major General J. Lawton Collins, Commanding General, US VII Corps, describes how the city of Cherbourg was taken.

General Omar Bradley was growing frustrated with the slow progress in breaking out from the Cotentin Peninsula. Having seized the port of Cherbourg, the …