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Early
1941 |
Company "M", 2nd Infantry Regiment, on 30 cal. machine
gun firing range at
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin during early 1941. |
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May, 1941 |
May, 1941 - Grenadiers of the 11th Infantry Regiment Gas
and Grenade Company in action at Fort Custer, Michigan. |
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Early 1940s |
"'Dance Night' American Red Cross," and is one of six
drawings inspired by scenes around
Iceland in the
early 1940's and drawn by T/5 Keith Pitzer in a publication called "The
Rock." |
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1942 |
The
5th Infantry Division
Band in Iceland
during the early 1940s. |
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1942-1943 |
T/5 Steve J. Fialkowski's 5th Infantry Division
Icelandic Veterans Certificate. |
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30 March 1944 |
Northern Ireland: Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., speaks to men of the 10th Infantry Regiment
after they completed an assault demonstration, near Kilkeel, County Down. |
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30
September 1944 |
Lt. Col. Burn C. Cox, from
Atlanta, GA, an officer in the 1st Division in 1918 and
the sole remaining man who was in WW-I and still
remaining in the 5th Infantry Division reads the plaque
on a monument erected in honor of the Fifth Division and
the part they played in WW-I. |
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10 November 1944 |
Preny, France: Army officers
study model of surrounding terrain at Headquarters, 5th
Infantry Division, in France, during the visit of Gen.
George C. Marshall (right side of photo), Chief of
Staff, U.S. Army. Others are, left to right front
row, Lt. Gen. Thomas T. Handy, Gen. George S. Patton,
Maj. Gen. Hiram C. Walker, and the commanding general of
the 5th Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. S. Leroy Irwin. |
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1945 |
The American Soldier, 1945: Infantry Officer Advancing.
Germany. Tankers and Infantrymen. |
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27
March 1945 |
Infantrymen of the 5th
Infantry Division move through the streets of newly
taken Frankfurt, Germany. |
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10 April
1945 |
Meschede, Germany had
just been captured by infantrymen of the 5th Division. |
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11
April 1945 |
Infantrymen of Co. K, 2nd Infantry Regiment, skirt the
newly-taken town of Grevenstein, to attack a nearby hill
that the Germans were using for an observation post. |
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7 May
1945 |
PFC
Charles Havlat of 2nd Platoon, Recon Company, 803rd Tank Destroyer
Battalion, 5th Infantry Division, was the last man to die in battle in WW-II
at 08:20 hours, on 07 May 1945, near Volary,
Czechoslovakia, six hours after a
cease-fire had been ordered ending WW-II. |
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