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Reichsmarshal Hermann G&246ring surrendered in state. The 36th Infantry Division's assistant commander, Brigadier General Robert Stack, met him by appointment on a country road in Bavaria, saluted smartly, and escorted him to division headquarters. Major General John E. Dahlquist, who is proud of his German, dismissed an interpreter, led the Reichsmarshal to a command trailer, and conversed with him in dignified privacy. Afterward the biggest Nazi scoundrel so far bagged by the Allies lunched on chicken, changed into a fresh uniform with twelve medals, and put up for the night at a nearby castle with Frau...
...minute record of one of the tense and bloody battles for the Liri Valley in Italy in late 1943, it is a story told chiefly in terms of the experience of one infantry regiment - the 143rd of the 36th Division...
...Among U.S. divisions 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...
About 1,400 San Antonians have been killed, wounded or are missing. Nearly half these were Latin Americans, chiefly Mexicans, who have proved among the best of U.S. combat troops. Six San Antonians were killed at Pearl Harbor, but Salerno was costliest. There the 36th (Texas) Division, including 1,000 San Antonians, spearheaded the beach attack...
Captain Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division. He had been in this company since long before he left the States. He was very young, only in his middle 20s, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided...