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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Army Form C.2118
Unit: HQ 185 Inf Bde
Month and Year: October 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Brig. E.L. Bols
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
1   Recce parties of Bde Gp moved during the night 30 Sep/1 Oct over the MEUSE and on to the ‘island’. At 0800 hrs an ‘O Gp’ was held at a desolate road junc amid the hurly-burly of two divisions moving up the same route. The plan of invasion was hatched in a deserted and squalid cafe. Bns then moved into conc areas in a dripping forest packed with Americans and Bde HQ set up at 722543.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

Disclaimer: This War Diary is based on its original, but typos might be corrected. Locations are calculated, so might not be in the correct place. For historical research, always check the originals.