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Glass Fragments from World War II Exhibition Opens September 14 at the NVMM
Opening Night Reception to Take Place on September 13 at 6:30 p.m.; NVMM Will Be Exhibit’s Final Stop Before Its Permanent Install at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA COLUMBUS, Ohio – The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) today announced the opening of Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II, which will run September…
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Fred talks about the Allied Generals
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Fred talks about his impressions of War
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Thionville
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Fred talks about making the Verdun Piece
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A Taste of Liberation
Chaplain McDonald arrived in Paris on September 2, only a week after the Germans had been driven out. Unlike the ruins found in Normandy, Paris was completely intact and the Parisians were still reveling in the joy of liberation.
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Entering the Battle
On August 13, Chaplain McDonald flew to a field near Bayeux, France, and then traveled by jeep 60 kilometers west to a tent-filled apple orchard south of Periers. There he met Major Pierre Boy, who explained that he was now Chaplain of Special Troops, 12th Army Group, commanded by Lt. General Omar Nelson Bradley. While…
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Uncertain Loyalties
Although based in Verdun, Chaplain McDonald regularly traveled to the front lines to conduct religious services for the troops there. He also commuted every Sunday to Luxembourg, and passed by and through many French towns close to the German border, including Metz and Thionville. Sometimes American forces questioned the loyalties of recently liberated locals. In…
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St. Andrew’s English Church
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Thionville, France Unidentified Sanctuary
“I was asked to visit one of our radio units near this town of about 70,000, which had been heavily fortified by the Germans and vigorously defended when General George Patton appeared to attack them in October 1944. After fierce fighting he succeeded but was not able to secure three strong points, really three separate…
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Cathedral of Saint Stephen
“I was asked to visit one of our radio units near this town of about 70,000, which had been heavily fortified by the Germans and vigorously defended when General George Patton appeared to attack them in October 1944. After fierce fighting he succeeded but was not able to secure three strong points, really three separate…