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 Presentation of the Club : 		 
   

The CLVMA was founded in 1983 and first chaired by Alphonse Mariole (1983-1984) then by Alain Bertolotti (1984-2003). Actually, the president of our association is Thierry Koch.

The idea to create a club of US military vehicles emerged from my memories : the liberation of my birthplace, Villerupt in Lorraine, by the US troops when I was a child. I’ll always remember these long columns of vehicles full of soldiers who distributed candies to all the children bound along the roads. The vehicles preswent in my memory are the jeep but more the GMC Truck driven by US colored soldiers.It’s in honor of these soldiers comùing from America that I wanted to create a club of US military vehicles.

Alphonse Marioli, Foundeur of the C.L.V.M.A

In 1996, the veterans of the 95th ID Association signed a charter of twinning with the CLVMA in Oklahoma City (Oklmahoma) ; By this, they make us their official representative in France and give us the right to bear the colors of their division on our vehicles and uniforms.

Since 2001, the CLVMA has been twinned with the 95th IT, actual division in the USA which gives to the soldiers a high quality training under the command of the US Army.

In April 2002, our association signed a charter of twinning with the I Company of the 377th Infantry Regiment. This company took an active part in the liberation of Metz and released Maizières-lès-Metz on November 17th, 1944 after 2 months of fierce combat !

  
        

   
 
 
 
 
 Why the 95th Infantry Division ? 		 
   

This division liberated our area of Metz at the end of 1944 with heavy losses. We are neither nostalgic, nor resentful or militarists. We respect these young people who liberated us and a great number of whom never saw his birthplace again.

The CLVMA is a club of passionnate which wants to pay tribute to its American friends thanks to parades of vehicles whose restoration required a lot of time, work and money.

It would be good that the actual youths perpetuates the memory of the sacrifice of these soldiers, thanks to whom we’re free today.

  
        

 
 
 
 
 
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