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Peter spent 22 weeks in Liege, longer than anywhere else he stayed during the war.  Their duties in Liege now began to include policing the town and dealing with crimes committed by American [...]

On the fateful morning of 24 November 1944, the 15th General Hospital in Liege was hit by a V-1 buzz bomb, that found its mark in front of the Pharmacy building.  Sixteen lives of nurses, [...]

Peter and Company C enter Belgium and are stationed in the city of Liege. Liberated just days before they arrived, Monfre’s company had their hands full with duties in Liege and the city was also [...]

The 509th MPs were assigned the job of providing an escort for actress Dinah Shore & actor Edward G. Robinson, who were entertaining the GIs at various stops in France. When Robinson [...]

Peter and his fellow soldiers leave Paris after one week and travel 80 miles Northwest to Ham, France.  They will spend the next 10 days in Ham, cleaning all their equipment, training, and [...]

Company C is sent to Paris and is assigned traffic control duties outside right outside of Paris in Saint Germain.  They will spend six days in Paris, a city alive in celebration, having only [...]

An American P-38 fighter plane was shot down either on purpose or by accident by American anti-aircraft gunners. Members of the 509th were sent to the crash site near Vierville-sur-Mer to [...]

The Allies’ created a plan to break out of Normandy called Operation Cobra, which included increased bombings from the air mixed with a more concentrated front. The Allies were struggling to [...]

For the next two months, Company C will be in charge of directing traffic and keeping order in towns throughout Manche and Calvados.  This included policing recently destroyed cities as well as [...]

Three members of Peter’s Company, Jack A. Buck, Patrick J. Enright Jr, and Gordon R. McKinney are wounded by enemy shellfire while directing traffic in Carentan.  They were hit by shrapnel [...]