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At four A.M. on Monday, August 21, 1944, an envoy appeared at the Task Force Butler command post at Aspres with a message from General Truscott: […]

The 3rd Division of the 30th Infantry Division advanced a further 30 miles to Aix-en-Provence, which was reached on August 20th.[1] The 30th Infantry moved into […]

The 30th Infantry  Regiment captured the town of Brignoles after a two day engagement.[1] Dad’s 3rd Battalion continued toward Bras.[2]

Then on the night of August 18, 1944, while working with his platoon to keep ammunition flowing to the rifle squads, a bullet struck Phil in […]

With the German Army in panicked retreat, Phil and his battalion moved almost continuously. They were spurred on by Major General Lucian K. Truscott, who commanded […]

By noon of August 16, 1944, D-Day +1, leading elements of the 3rd Infantry Division were twenty miles inland. Its gains were surprising, and gratifying, in comparison […]

The 3rd Division’s mission in southern France was to land on beaches in the vicinity of St. Tropez and Cavalaire, approximately 30 miles east of Toulon. Once […]

As the men followed him down the rope ladders into other Higgins boats, Phil yelled to them, “Hold the verticals, or your hands will be stepped […]

At dawn on D-Day, August 15, 1944, there were ships as far as the eye could see.[1] Onboard an LST in the Mediterranean Sea, Phil Larimore […]

OPERATION DRAGOON [the southern France D-Day], originally called ANVIL, had first been intended as a diversion during OPERATION OVERLORD [the D-Day at Normandy] to occupy eighteen […]