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...their embarkation for overseas duty. 1,500 members of the 45th Infantry Division, all American Indians, staged a war dance. Last week, when the 45th returned to the U.S. from its latest overseas tour, 1,000 men marched from Manhattan's Bowling Green to City Hall, where General Matthew Ridgway, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a host of brass were waiting to welcome them home. Along Broadway the traditional ticker tape slithered down on the marching men-the first to return from Korea as a unit-and a crowd of 250,000 New Yorkers cheered them on their way. After...
Sicily to Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action...
After V-J day, the 45th returned to Oklahoma and inactive duty. At a convention in 1951, the 45th Division Association passed a resolution demanding that the division be enlarged to Marine Corps size, and that the commanding general be given equal status on the J.C.S. The Thunderbirds. said the association, participated in four major landings, and in more combat days than any Marine division, "in fact, as many as any three Marine divisions." The marines regarded this petition as in bad taste...
Baldy to Heartbreak Ridge. In 1950 the 45th was called to federal service once more, entered combat in Korea a year later. The division found itself in a new, essentially defensive role. In 429 combat days, the 45th spent most of its time in counterattacks and blackface night patrols, but it saw plenty of action, too-at Baldy, the Punchbowl, and at Heartbreak Ridge. In the battlefield judgment of James Van Fleet, the 45th, "as far as combat effectiveness is concerned, is perhaps as good as any division we have...
Encouraged by its showing in he Heptagonals last week, where it took a surprisingly close third behind Cornell and Army, the Crimson enters the 45th annual IC4A Championship Cross Country Run this afternoon...