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Brest Recouvrance Bridge Capture Plaque-29th Infantry Division

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Details:

At the top of the south side pedestrian stairway attached to the wall facing the port.

Marker


A brass inscribed plaque.

 

The plaque remembers the 29th “Blue and Gray” Infantry Division’s capture of Fort Montbarey, Port of Conquet and the Recouvrance Bridge during the Battle for Brest, France in September 1944.

 

Brest was captured after difficult fighting by General Troy Middleton’s VIII Corps, with the 2nd, 8th, and 29th Infantry Divisions and Ranger detachments to storm the city.

Monument Text:

The plaque on the text is in English and French and reads:

 

-SYMBOL OF THE 29TH INFANTRY DIVISION-

 

17 SEPTEMBER 1944

 

LIBERATION of RECOUVRANCE

 

* * * * * * *

 

LE FORT DE MONTBAREY CONQUIS

A L’ISSUE DE SANGIANTS COMBATS

E 29 eme DIVISION D’ INFANTRIE U.S.

FRANCIT  IN PORT DE CONQUET

ET LIBRE RECOUVRAANCE

LE 17 SEPTMBRE 1944

 

Translation:

 

THE FORT OF MONTBARAY WAS

CAPTURED AFTER  BLOODY FIGHT

BY THE SOLDIERS OF THE

US 29TH INFANTRY DIVISION

TO CROSS TO THE CONQUET PORT

AND THE LIBERATION OF THE RECOUVRANCE BRIDGE

 

17TH OF SEPTEMBER 1944

Commemorates:

Units:

1st US Army

29th Infantry Division

VII Corps

Wars:

WWII

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