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10-03-1944 - Major Kinney
“Major Kinney, the executive officer of the 904th
Field Artillery Battalion, was killed in action. Kinney
was a very close friend since we joined the 79th Division
on activation. We were Captains and Battery Commanders at
the same time… part of the cadre of the Artillery.”
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Location on this day: S.E. SIONVILLER, LORRAINE, FRANCE
311th Command Post in a farmhouse
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this day in World War II: |
| The first Me262 jet fighter becomes
operational. A total of 40 are deployed at a base near
Osnabruck.
Soviet forces seize the Hiiuma Island off the coast of
Estonia.
North of Aachen, elements of US 1st Army (part of US
12th Army Group) break through the German forces holding
the Siegfried Line.
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