GERMANS FLEE NORMANDY, ENGAGE U.S. 442ND RCT IN VOSGES MOUNTAINS
Berlin, Germany • August 16, 1944 On this date in 1944, two-and-one-half months after the Allies had landed on the Normandy coast of German-occupied Northwestern France (Operation Overlord) and one day after thousands of servicemen from the U.S. Seventh and French First armies had landed by air and sea on the French Riviera in the…