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* • tCroix de GuerreAwarded Lt. CoLtin* i «f-with irinf thineGeorge W. Rhyneandring* on aWith the 83rd Division In Germany, March 84—Lt Cel George W. Rhyne, Signal Officer of the 83rd Infantry Division, of 18 Edge* moat avenue, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for exceptional services rendered during the Liberation of France,He Is the husband of lira Vivien. ~ik€ Rhyne, the ' ** Officer of the 83rdDivision, Colonel Rbyne has been j5 with the 83rd since its activation August 13, 1942, at Camp Alter* bury, Ind, He has served in this capacity ever since and came overseas a year ago when the Division went to the Midlands of England prior to landing at Omaha Beach on D plus 13, June 19,1914.The 83rd relieved the 101st Air- j borne Division south of Carentan and participated in the drive through the Normandy hedgerows to Periera, then Joined GeneraJ Patton’s Third Army to sweep up the Brittany Peninsula to storm Saint Malo and Dinard while a■j Task Force went on to help liberate Brest.In Patton’s dash across France, the 83rd protected its right flank along the Loire River and took 80,000 prisoners In the war’s largest single mas* surrender, Later,followed a period of defense inLuxembourg, the Division spearheaded the First Army drive from the Hurtgen Forest to the Roer River in Germany,Called upon to fight In the Battle of the Bulge, the 83rd helped blunt the German penetration in.1Belgium at Rochefort, thp proiKsoutceeded to blase a south for the Third Armored Pnvision In itseffort to cut the^ftal Houffalixe-St Vith highway.The 83rd Division, after a period of revitalisation joined GeneralWilliam H. Simpson’s Ninth Army In the Rhine River Drive and were the first American troops to reach the mighty river early of thef March 2nd,Rhyne, a graduate of West Point, Class of 1938, also holds the Star for meritorious service in France, 'SOIVcbciTrupNainjBujFli
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Thu, May 03, 1945
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