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Into the desolate ruins of Leghorn wormed the 34th Division. Engineers found 900 mines along one mile of road, gave up digging and began blowing them up. Maps prepared by Italian Partisans in the footsteps of the methodical Germans indicated that Leghorn was the most thorough mining job ever attempted...
...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
...34th Division's Corporal James P. Fouche gave an eyewitness report of Chaplain Hoffmann in action: "Our battalion was ordered to take Hill 490, the smaller hill near Hill 609. One of the fellows ahead got hit. We could hear him moaning and two medics tried to reach him, but they could not because of the enemy machine-gun fire raking the area. The poor guy kept calling and two other medics tried to take a stab at it, but they couldn't reach him, either...
...baseball team alone turned out eight generals. The class itself has provided more than 30-about half of its members still on the active list. Other Bradley classmates include General Eisenhower; Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff; Major General Charles W. Ryder, Commander of the 34th In fantry Division in Italy; General George E. Stratemeyer, Air Force commander in the China-Burma-India theater...
...last week to be on the front: the 3rd, a Regular Army outfit heavily sprinkled with West Coast soldiers, which spearheaded the first Anzio beach attack; the 36th, a National Guard outfit from Texas, which forced the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the 34th, Iowa and Minnesota National Guard, which battled its way to a footbold in Cassino...