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unusual facts about La Haye-du-Puits


Rudolf Bacherer

Bacherer was immediately promoted to command the Division and enjoyed some early successes, capturing 250 American prisoners on 17 June and the following day broke through US lines to link up with the remnants of the LXXXIV Corps near La Haye-du-Puits.


Jacky Carlier

Bronze medallist over 3000m at the 1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships in La Haye, behind German Dieter Baumann and Spaniard Abel Antón, he got his second podium the following year, in 1990 in Glasgow, beaten in the final by his compatriot Eric Dubus.

Melchers

Franz Melchers (Münster 1868 - Antwerp 1944), painter of German origin, he studied arts in Brussels and La Haye.


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