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'

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