American Fri, 01 May 2026 02:38:36 +0000 Fri, 01 May 2026 02:38:36 +0000 Whitebeam Battlefield Research Forum http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/forums/american.29/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:35:31 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/pathfinders-sent-into-normandy-pre-d-day-to-purify-water.415/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/pathfinders-sent-into-normandy-pre-d-day-to-purify-water.415/ invalid@example.com (Blainville50) Blainville50
A chap I've been in touch with recently in the US posted the following on another forum and I wondered if anyone on here could shed any light on it. He has given me permission to reproduce his original post here :

"A close friend was recently telling me how his father, of Swiss descent and fluent in German, landed in Normandy ahead of the invasion. My eyes opened wide and my ears perked up, because I knew he had at least been a...

Pathfinders sent into Normandy pre D Day to 'purify water'?]]> 21 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:53:22 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/latest-carpetbagger-newsletter-147.445/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/latest-carpetbagger-newsletter-147.445/ invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) Pat Curran
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Regards,

Pat]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:37:50 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/gen-wild-bill-donovan-at-utah-beach.217/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/gen-wild-bill-donovan-at-utah-beach.217/ invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) Pat Curran
While reading 'Normandy in the Time of Darkness' by Douglas Boyd, I came across a very amusing story in an otherwise extremely sombre work. The book itself deals with the occupation of France from 1940 up to the Liberation as seen from the French civilian perspective - a story which was sorely needed to be told might I add!

Anyway, this particular story states that apparently General...

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