French Text Through hundreds of vintage photographs, the journey of this American Division, which landed in Provence in August 1944 after a long campaign in Italy, leads us to the heart of Germany where the unit was the first to enter the Dachau Concentration Camp. They were previously released part of the South France, then traveled up the Rhone Valley to Vosges. The 45th Division was covered with honors in very heavy fighting.

The illustrated story of the most famous of US Army Divisions in WW2, from North Africa to Germany, and that of its outstanding generals, such as Theodore Roosevelt Junior and maverick Terry de la Mesa Allen.

The 1st Infantry Division was established in 1917 to participate in the fighting in France and faced the major German offensives of 1918. During the Second World War, it effected its first assault landing in North Africa in 1942. Then followed the invasion of Sicily, D-Day in Normandy, the battle of the Bulge and the conquest of the Reich, as far as...