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    Saint-Côme-du-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ kom dy mɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January...
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    reconnaissance toward Saint Côme-du-Mont jumped off at 0430 as planned, but without the full-strength glider infantry battalion, which had not yet come up. The town...
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    used by Napoleon Bonaparte at the same location. The highway from Saint Côme-du-Mont crossed the floodplain via a narrow 1 mile (2 km) long causeway having...
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    landed almost intact on DZ D but in a day-long battle failed to take Saint-Côme-du-Mont and destroy the highway bridges over the Douve. The glider battalions...
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    seat), Angoville-au-Plain, Houesville, and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. On January 1, 2017, Brévands, Les Veys, and Saint-Pellerin joined the commune of Carentan...
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    Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from 1942 until his death at Saint-Côme-du-Mont, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, during World War II. Despite being...
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  • Aveyron department Saint-Côme-de-Fresné, a commune in the department of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region Saint-Côme-du-Mont, a commune in the Manche...
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    Col. Robert A. Ballard, gathered 250 troopers and advanced toward Saint Côme-du-Mont to complete his mission of destroying the highway bridges over the...
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    Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland...
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  • counterattack before embarking on the tank to secure a vital crossroad near Saint-Côme-du-Mont. Although successful in breaking through the heavy German defenses...
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    Blanc (Moon) Tête Rousse Glacier Mont Blanc massif Mont Blanc Tramway Mont Blanc Tunnel Tour du Mont Blanc Top of the Mont Blanc List of Alpine four-thousanders...
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    exceedingly low altitude of 360 feet (110 meters). After landing in Saint-Côme-du-Mont, Sergeant Beyrle lost contact with his fellow paratroopers, but succeeded...
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    located north of the town of Mont-Tremblant, and the village of Saint-Donat and Saint-Côme, in the administrative regions of Laurentides and Lanaudière,...
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    The Mont Blanc massif (French: Massif du Mont-Blanc; Italian: Massiccio del Monte Bianco) is a mountain range in the Alps, located mostly in France and...
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    2011, 2016, 2021 census Statistics Canada 2021 Census - Saint-Côme community profile "de Saint-Côme." Commission scolaire des Samares. Retrieved on September...
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  • opposite Brévands, destroying the highway bridges over the Douve at Saint-Côme-du-Mont, and securing the Douve River valley. Their secondary mission was...
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    The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡulij diy midi], "Needle at midday") is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif...
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    in nineteenth-century Paris. The name comes from Mont Blanc, as the dish resembles a snow-capped mountain. Mont Blanc has been an autumn and winter favorite...
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    related to Welbike motorcycles. Welbike - Colin Stevens 2011 archive SOE Welbike D-Day Paratroopers Historical Center Saint-Côme-du-Mont, France (Archived)...
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    Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal (French: Oratoire Saint-Joseph-du-Mont-Royal) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine located at 3800...
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    born in 1883 to Mr. J. Gosselin, a rather modest breeder based in Saint-Côme-du-Mont, Manche. According to Jean-Pierre Reynaldo, he was an "ordinary, not...
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    men of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment moved into position near Saint-Côme-du-Mont, preventing the 501st Parachute Infantry from advancing any further...
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    Mount Royal (French: Mont Royal, IPA: [mɔ̃ ʁwajal]) is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city's...
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    story of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment who were dropped in Saint-Côme-du-Mont behind German lines on D-Day June 2006 abduction of U.S. soldiers...
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    Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ dy mɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France....
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    Village of Saint-Placide and the Parish of Saint-Placide.. 17 August: The Municipality of Saint-Côme-de-Linière changed its name to Saint-Côme-Linière....
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    Francis L. Sampson (category Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity alumni)
    the coast of France. Chaplain Sampson landed in the Douve River at Saint-Come-du-Mont and stayed with the wounded who could not be moved at a large farmhouse...
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    Saint-Côme-de-Fresné (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ komˈ də fʁɛneˈ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France...
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    Archived from the original on 11 October 2015. Ski Val Saint-Côme. "Contact Us". Val Saint-Côme Station Touristique. Retrieved 22 February 2016. Jeremy...
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  • Ben Vandervoort are on display at this museum: D-Day Experience – Saint-Come-du-Mont – Normandy, France "Benjamin H. Vandervoort, Retired Colonel, 75"...
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