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Hard to believe I've only just found this (very well-executed!) site. I am the great-grandson and namesake of Edward H. Brooks, Commander of the 2nd Armored Division from March to September of 1944. I'm an American expat who has been living in eastern Austria since 2018, and am planning my first trip to Normandy in the spring of 2023 to see some of the places and people liberated from Nazi tyranny by the 2AD. To this end, and in preparation for a YouTube channel live-stream on which I will be a guest in December, I have stepped up my research into the Division, during which I found this site. I've made it my life's avocation to preserve, document, and curate the mementos and experiences of General Brooks, and find great meaning in the stories of the men who lived and died under his command... particularly those of the 2nd Armored Division. I just wanted to say how wonderful it has been to find this site, and to offer the use of any photos or information I may have at hand. Unfortunately, I've not found any diary that he may have kept during the war, and many of his papers were donated to the Norwich University library many decades ago. Warmest regards, Edward "Ted" Kempster