4th Infantry Division cut edge

4th Infantry Division cut edge Patch. original, WW2.

On June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy landings, the 4th Division landed on Utah Beach under the orders of its second in command, General Theodore Roosevelt Junior. This one, son of the former American president, is the highest ranking ally to land in a wave of assault on the day of the landing despite his age, 57, and arthritis forcing him to move with a cane. This landing is marked by an error on the arrival beach: the division is landed one kilometer next to its objective because of the sea currents. This error will prove beneficial, as this part of the beach is less defended. The capture of Utah beach was much less bloody than that of Omaha: "only" 200 soldiers were reported killed, wounded or missing on the evening of June 6 in the 4th US Infantry.

After the bridgehead was consolidated, the 4th US Division took part in the capture of Cherbourg and its port at the end of June. From July 1944, she engages in battle in the Normandy bocage in which she experiences heavy losses.

General Patton, while the Norman front was experiencing great difficulty in progressing, integrated the 4th DI US into Operation Cobra, also known as the "Avranches breakthrough". The division also participates in the liberation of Paris.

The German border reached in September 1944, it must, during the winter, resist the last attempt of German counter-attack in the Ardennes before entering definitively on German territory.

In the film The Longest Day (1962), Henry Fonda plays the role of General Theodore Roosevelt Junior who arrives with his cane at the head of his men during the first assault. Previously a scene shows General Barton, played by Edmond O'Brien, authorizing him to disembark on D-Day.

On June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy landings, the 4th Division landed on Utah Beach under the orders of its second in command, General Theodore Roosevelt Junior. This one, son of the former American president, is the highest ranking ally to land in a wave of assault on the day of the landing despite his age, 57, and arthritis forcing him to move with a cane. This landing is marked by an error on the arrival beach: the division is landed one kilometer next to its objective because of the sea currents. This error will prove beneficial, as this part of the beach is less defended. The capture of Utah beach was much less bloody than that of Omaha: "only" 200 soldiers were reported killed, wounded or missing on the evening of June 6 in the 4th US Infantry.

After the bridgehead was consolidated, the 4th US Division took part in the capture of Cherbourg and its port at the end of June. From July 1944, she engages in battle in the Normandy bocage in which she experiences heavy losses.

General Patton, while the Norman front was experiencing great difficulty in progressing, integrated the 4th DI US into Operation Cobra, also known as the "Avranches breakthrough". The division also participates in the liberation of Paris.

The German border reached in September 1944, it must, during the winter, resist the last attempt of German counter-attack in the Ardennes before entering definitively on German territory.

In the film The Longest Day (1962), Henry Fonda plays the role of General Theodore Roosevelt Junior who arrives with his cane at the head of his men during the first assault. Previously a scene shows General Barton, played by Edmond O'Brien, authorizing him to disembark on D-Day