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H Company from Martinsville: ‘Heavy casualties as its soldiers struggled through the flooding surf’
No after-action report for H Company from the 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division could be found. This is taken from a plaque at the National D-Day Memorial. H Company was from Martinsville. See all the reports from Virginia units in the 116th. Mobilized by proclamation of President Franklin...
Command Group: ‘We cursed, we cried, we laughed’
"Then the ranging fire caught them and cut them down as they tried to cross the sands. Only one-third of the men reached the foot of the slope alive." The post Command Group: ‘We cursed, we cried, we laughed’ appeared first on Cardinal News.
City of Martinsville celebrates opening of renovative tennis & pickleball courts
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (WFXR)– The City of Martinsville is hosting a ribbon-cutting for its newly renovated Spruce Street tennis and pickleball courts during ‘Hope2Play’ day on Friday, May 31 from 10 a.m. to noon. The Spruce Street Tennis Courts have been closed since May 6 to resurface, paint,...
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