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  1. Private First Class Charles N. DeGlopper[1] United States Army for service as set forth in the following CITATION: He was a member of Company C, 325th Glider Infantry, on 9 June 1944 advancing with the forward platoon to secure a bridgehead across the Merderet River at La Fière, France. At dawn the platoon had penetrated an outer line of machineguns and riflemen, but in so doing had become cut off from the rest of the company. Vastly superior forces began a decimation of the stricken unit and put in motion a flanking maneuver which would have completely exposed the American platoon in a shallow roadside ditch where it had taken cover. Detecting this danger, Pfc. DeGlopper volunteered to support his comrades by fire from his automatic rifle while they attempted a withdrawal through a break in a hedgerow 40 yards to the rear. Scorning a concentration of enemy automatic weapons and rifle fire, he walked from the ditch onto the road in full view of the Germans, and sprayed the hostile positions with assault fire. He was wounded, but he continued firing. Struck again, he started to fall; and yet his grim determination and valiant fighting spirit could not be broken. Kneeling in the roadway, weakened by his grievous wounds, he leveled his heavy weapon against the enemy and fired burst after burst until killed outright. He was successful in drawing the enemy action away from his fellow soldiers, who continued the fight from a more advantageous position and established the first bridgehead over the Merderet. In the area where he made his intrepid stand his comrades later found the ground strewn with dead Germans and many machineguns and automatic weapons which he had knocked out of action. Pfc. DeGlopper's gallant sacrifice and unflinching heroism while facing insurmountable odds were in great measure responsible for a highly important tactical victory in the Normandy Campaign
  2. Bro that is Saving Private Ryan. Ramelle does not exist. The battle was at the bridge over the Merderet at La Fiere. I have stood on this bridge pics below The mortal ferocity of the four-day battle for control of the small stone bridge over the Merderet River at La FiΓ¨re in Normandy is testament to the bridge’s strategic importance in the D-Day invasion of June 1944. Without control of the bridge and its vital causeway, American forces coming from Utah Beach would not have been able to force their way inland. Fought largely by paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division, the battle to secure the bridge at La FiΓ¨re is described as β€œprobably the bloodiest small unit struggle in the experience of American arms.” Victory at La FiΓ¨re cost more than 250 American lives, and yet the fateful engagement’s story is largely untold.
  3. Wordle 1,092 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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  5. Wordle 1,090 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 no _______ solving this wordle
  6. the Diamond Cabaret was pretty solid too
  7. MAGNA is some straight up bullshit word
  8. We had a boys trip to Denver, played Bear Dance, Arrowhead and Fox Hollow (Meadows). All really solid courses.
  9. Wordle 1,086 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. What I picked yesterday
  11. Wordle 1,081 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 by guess #6, there were no possible words left
  12. interesting things that I have learned that I wish I never knew: 1. How to get a boat off the bottom of the South Padre Island canal. 2. How to brute force a gun safe.
  13. Wordle 1,080 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  14. Shifty AF, great vision and speed. Interesting offense with all those delayed handoffs.
  15. https://alliedvictorytours.com Mike is FANTASTIC. Highly recommend you hire him for at least one full day if not 1.5 or 2. The pics you see upthread were all with Mike. He has 250 reviews on TA, every one is 5 star. I went with him in 2019 when he was just starting his business, he is now the #1 tour guide in the area.
  16. Them is freaking me the fuck out
  17. I did that once. Hope to never repeat it.
  18. 2 turntables and a microphone and no kids
  19. spoilering it is bullshit I don't want to see, T&P's sent, until next time ---signed, America LOOK!
  20. It was much worse than what is reflected in those photos. Those kids were stacked up like cordwood in that corner of the classroom with coagulated blood so thick it would boggle the mind. Way back when this happened, I told you this asshole wrote "LOL" on the board in blood. America needs to see it, whether they want to or not.
  21. what a joke EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DO NOT UNSPOILER UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE
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