The Rat Race - 30th Infantry Division

In accomplishing this task, we liberated Pontoise, Roye, Peronne, Cambrai and Valenciennes, and we were the first Allied Infantry troops to cross the border into Belgium on 1 September. This last leg of the pursuit was about 180 miles, in 72 hours, and was the fastest opposed advance by an infantry division in the history of warfare! ................
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