F.     Break Out in France, 1944

19 August to 5 September 1944

• followed through after St. Lo breakthrough; arriving at Le Mans where "we were quartered in buildings for the first time in several months".

5-8 September, 1944

• Arrived Bois de Vincennes, Paris

• cigarettes $5 per pack. "The Paris women 'Oah La La'.  Never again will it be as it was then".  Sight-seeing trips but no maintenance.

8-30 September 1944

• Coulommiers, (due east of Paris, SW of Reims) in an open field along the 'Red Ball Route'.  "A tiring experience" as had only 72 hours for longest truck repair.  "This unit proved itself .... and was never caught short handed. " Too rainy to work in field.

30 Sept. -  24 October 1944

• Reims: in buildings.

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