All three Regiments continued to organize their defensive positions. The Division Commander received warning orders that the 90th Infantry Division would attack across the Merderet River through the lines of the 8nd Airborne Division with a view to cutting off the Peninsula. It was organized . The 90th ID had their 359th Infantry Regiment attached to the 4th ID for D-Day, landing on 6 June. 8 june (D+2) : After an uninterrupted advance of 2 Kms it encountered a heavily defended strong-point in a sunken road midway between LA SALMONNERIE and ST GERMAIN. Was alerted at 1000 and given the mission to proceed S through PERIERS to contact the enemy. 357th suffered 13 casualties. Unit: 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division: Rank: Staff Sergeant U.S. Army: Entered Service From: South Dakota : Date of Death: . Corps order assigned a new mission to the 90th Division. 358th Inf: Nickname: Tough 'Ombres; during World War I, the division was called the Texas-Oklahoma Division, represented by the T and O on the shoulder patch. The RCT 9 moved by battalion to the vicinity of Bandienvielle, still part of the 4th Infantry Divisions Reserve. At 0900 Field Train and Regimental Headquarters personnel were forced into a provisional Co and occupied positions astride the ST JORES BEAU COUDRAY road S of the Regimental Headquarters. Many men swam the water gap and reached our lines safely but 11 officers and approximately 200 men were cut off and captured. Hassell C. Whitefield - Home of Heroes ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 2nd Bn, passing to the right of the 2nd Bn 358th Inf, advanced on the right rear of the 1st Bn, seized LA COMMUNE and continued to the RIVER to establish contact with the 1st Bn on its left, and shortly before dark with the 121st Infantry on its right. An air mission made on Vesley to knock out Artillery and Command Posts was very successful. Manhattan,Kansas.Sunflower University Press, 1996; Harold M. Hyman. The 2nd Bn advanced rapidly hampered only by mines.

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