Operation FIDO - Task Force Able: June 6 - July 9, 2010

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Task Force Able: June 6 - July 9, 2010 consisted of:

- the voyage crossing the Atlantic on the MSC Flaminia from Houston, TX to the port of Antwerp Belgium.

- vehicular transport from Antwerp, Belgium to the first nights ashore in Caen, then the assaults on Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, Point du Hoc, Grand Camp Maisy, St. Mere Eglise, US Cemetery at Colleville, Deutche Cemetery, Arromanches, Longues Battery, Merville Battery, Azeville Battery, Crisbecq Battery, St. Vaast Le Hougue, Fort Canisy, Cherbourg's incredible mountain Fort du Roule, Dead Man's Corner, Fermanville, Port au Bessin, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches, The Pegasus Bridge, to the mopping up operations in the numerous roadside family run museums among the beautiful and rural bocage hedgerows of the Cherbourg peninsula vicinity.

The general route of Task Force Able is depicted by the waypoints noted on the map included.

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Task Force Baker, from July 10 to July 26, consisted of operations from Cherbourg back to St. Lo and all along the coast from Sword Beach to Calais such as Dieppe, Tremont, Le Touquet, Wimereux, Wissant, Battery Todt, Cap Gris Nez, Cap Blanc Nez, and then inland to various V1 and V2 launching site ruins and on into Ost Belgium for the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes and Hurtgen Forest region wrapping up at the Remagen Bridge site.

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Task Force Charlie, from July 26 to August 31, consisted of operations into Lucerne, Rome, Monte Cassino, Pompeii, Sorrento, the Cinque Terra, Monaco, Rhone Valley, Lyon, Strasbourg, Maginot Line forts, Ulm, Nurnberg, and finally the capture of Berlin.