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August 18, 2024
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 […]
August 17, 2024
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 […]
August 16, 2024
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 […]
August 15, 2024
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 […]
August 15, 2024
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 […]
August 15, 2024
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 […]
August 14, 2024
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 […]
August 13, 2024
By August 13, [almost all of the ships were] underway, part of a naval force totaling some 1,000 ships, all committed to landing some 151,000 troops, […]
August 13, 2024
Phil wrote his last letter home before the D-day apparently from the ship on which he was sailing.[1]
August 12, 2024
The Marnemen left the Naples area by convoy.[1] Units had received maps in sealed packages seventy-two hours before embarking, together with the Seventh Army identification code […]