June 6, 1944 - a moment to pause

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chopper wrote:
I think my grandpa earned his Bronze Star 12 July 1944 in France.

I think it was at a place called "St Lou".

Saint-Lô.
I read Andy Rooney's "My War" and I think the thing that struck me the hardest was the fighting between the hedgerows. He wrote how the tanks couldn't get thru so they had to drive the narrow lanes until they could get to an open area. There were wounded soldiers-German and American-laying in these narrow lanes and the tanks had to keep moving so they had to drive over the wounded...