Première Division Blindée - Mulhouse, Alsace, France
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N 47° 44.590 E 007° 20.553
32T E 375750 N 5289085
A memorial for the French 1st Armored Division in a park near the railway station of Mulhouse.
Waymark Code: WMKWPQ
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 06/04/2014
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The 1st Armored Division (French: 1re Division Blindée) was created in 1943 in French Algeria and played an important role in the final phases of World War II in Europe.
"The division landed in Provence on 15 August 1944, as part of the "Garbo Force", a part of General de Lattre de Tassigny's First French Army. It took part in the liberation of Toulon and Marseille. It was the first to reach the Rhone (25 August 1944), the Rhine (19 November 1944) and the Danube (21 April 1945). The division was mentioned in dispatches three times, but was disbanded on 31 March in 1946." (Wikipedia)
In 1948 the division was recreated. Units of the division took part in the First Golf War and the UNPROFOR and IFOR missions in Bosnia in the 1990s. In the reorganization of the French Army in 1999, the division was finally disestablished, but its honors and traditions are carried on by the 1st Mechanized Brigade.
The memorial wall is located in a small park at the main railway station. It has little text, just the names, dates and emblems. The dates that are not just engraved, but in metal letters are the liberation of Mulhouse on November 20, 1944 and February 9, 1945, when they moved on into Germany.
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Entrance fees (if it applies): free
Type of memorial: Other
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