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Carroll Steinbeck letters to his parents, April - September, 1945

Article: '66th To Staff Marseille Port

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66th To Staff MARSEILLE PORT - Paris, June 16-Members of the 66th "Black Panther" Inf. Div., have been assigned to staff three staging areas and the Port of Marseille, Com Z said today. Activated in April,, 1943, at Camp Blanding, Fla., the division arrived in Europe last Christmas Day and was assigned the job of containing the 50,000 Germans penned in the Atlantic coast pockets at St. Nazaire and Lorient. The division is commanded by Maj. Gen. H.F. Kramer.
 
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