I remember most of the big dates- Dec. 7, 1941; Aug. 15, 1944; Aug. 7, 1945; Nov. 22, 1963 but I had never heard of this one- Aug. 19, 1944. That was the day the Allied troops began an offensive against the German army in Southern France and the Rhone Valley. Although I've always liked history I found dates in a history book flat and boring. I've never had a desire to go to Normandy and observe where the D-Day battles began. But on this day as part of my trip I followed others out of the bus and within several steps I was in the middle of the Rhone American Cemetery. On Aug. 15, 1944 several divisions of the US Seventh Army plus French armor landed on the Riviera beaches, supported by British, French, Greek,
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