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I am selling a signed Harry Miller signed First Day Cover.
I am selling two of the same First Day Cover\'s. You will receive the one pictured or one as good or better.
During WWII, Miller served in the 740th Tank Battalion as a tank crewman. On Oct. 29, 1944, the battalion departed Weymouth, England and arrived at Utah Beach the next evening. There were no tanks available as promised, so moving without orders, Harry’s commander, Col. Rubel, marched the group through several towns. They arrived in Neufchateau, Belgium on Nov. 6. After being “chewed out” for leaving Utah Beach without permission, HQ assigned the radio code word “DAREDEVIL” for the battalion. Harry remembers nightly “Buzz Bombs” passing overhead, but none hit their area. On Dec. 16, the Germans began what we call today “The Battle of the Bulge.” Harry’s battalion proceeded to Sprimont, Belgium, where tanks would be issued. But most of the personnel had already fled, leaving dead bodies and worn-out equipment behind. “It was a smell I will never forget,” Harry said. So after piecing together three M4 Sherman tanks and an M-36 Tank Destroyer, they were off to Stoumont, Belgium to attack the Germans. “Everyone was scared,” Harry remembered. “Their eyes were bugged out.” And it was inside one of those tanks that Private Miller, on the job for all of one month, passed heavy 105mm shells to a gunner. He never could see the effects of their fire; only the explosions and the church steeple. After taking La Gleize, the battalion crossed the Siegfried Line moving to capture the south side of the city of Cologne. Then it was further south to Rohrbach, then back north for the “Ruhr Pocket Battle” at Siegen. Finally, Harry and the rest of the battalion had a two-week rest in Dusseldorf. The last place they were sent to before the end of the war was occupying a castle on Lake Schwerin.
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