Yes Sir!

The 29th Infantry Division was fighting on the Brittany peninsula with orders to crack the German fortress of Brest, home to U-boat pens that housed returning German submarines and – potentially – a massive supply point for the Allies if captured intact. Before they could get to Brest, they …

1944-09-08

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The 29th Infantry Division was fighting on the Brittany peninsula with orders to crack the German fortress of Brest, home to U-boat pens that housed returning German submarines and – potentially – a massive supply point for the Allies if captured intact. Before they could get to Brest, they had to bludgeon their way through the significant outlying defenses manned mostly by Fallschirmjager-Division 2. September 8th found the 29th Division stymied along its front by the usual diligently-prepared German defenses. Frustrated but sensing that the Germans were close to cracking, General Gerhardt radioed the commander of the 115th Regiment, Lt. Col. Louis Smith saying “Give ‘em the works today. holler ‘Let’s Go!’ and storm that objective.” To which Smith could only respond: “Yes sir!”

Brest, France

The Battle for Brest> was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces. It was estimated that the 37 Allied divisions to be on the continent by September 1944 would need 26,000 tons of supplies each day. The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, in northwestern France.

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