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Len Dyer, former curator at the 2d Cavalry’s Reed Museum, provided the following information: 2d Cavalry Group (Mechanized) operated under the Sept 1943 Table of Organization T/O 2-25 for the 2d & 42d Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalions. There were 44 officers, 3 warrant officers & 949 enlisted per battalion. Within the battalions there were 7 companies …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Reactivation ceremony for the Second Cavalry Regiment, 15 January 1943. The article from Columbia, SC’s ‘The State’ newspaper reads: SECOND CAVALRY REACTIVATED AT FORT JACKSON CEREMONIES …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Click photos to enlarge The War Department reached the decision on December 18, 1942 to reactivate two regiments of cavalry, the Second and Twenty-Ninth, as mechanized …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry by Sgt. Tom M. Griffin, H&S Troop, 42d Squadron 17 May, 1944 The big Camp at Bewdley (map CB) buzzed with tension. For the hundreds of …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry 19 – 24 July 1944 The fleet of landing craft transporting the main body of the Second Cavalry to Normandy joined another group and together made …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Bill Waldner, Headquarters & Supply Troop, 2nd Squadron, with the HQ-35 jeep. 1-3 August 1944 On August 1, 1944, the Second Cavalry Group, attached to the …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Troop C, 2d Squadron 3 August 1944 On August 3, the 1st and 2d Platoon of C Troop under Lts. Zecher and Parks, were given the …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry 5-10 August 1944 While pushing forward on a reconnaissance the night of August 5, Lt. Lindoerfer’s platoon of B Troop, 42d Squadron, entered the enemy held …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry By 2d Lt. Lindoerfer, Troop B, 42d Squadron 18-27 August 1944 We had a large number of the enemy trapped in the St. Nazaire (map I) …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry August 24-25 1944 On August 24, Lt. Fiedler, 3rd Platoon C Troop, with one of his armored cars and a bantam started from the Troop CP …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Felix Mazure, Frenchman with A Troop, 2d Squadron 25 August 1944 It was 10 o’clock and we were not far from Chaource (map III)(map 21) when …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Sgt. H.P. Grigsby 28 August-2 September 1944 On the Chauffour (map 21) road through the Bois de Bailly (map 21), 15 miles southeast of Troyes (map …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Two young SS troopers were captured near the CP and were getting a working over by the 1st Sergeant as our platoon left to head south …

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From: SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY Compiled, edited and published by Historical Section, Second Cavalry Association Maj. A. L. Lambert and Cpt. G. B. Layton, 2d Cavalry Pvt. Lester Fell, 2d Platoon, F Troop, 42d Squadron 3-6 Sept 1944 Although the town of Bainville, France never made the headlines of the newspapers in …

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