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Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 23, received a Silver Star. As artillery liaison officer he had made his way under heavy fire to a post well in advance of the infantry battalion to which he was attached, there directed artillery fire enabling the battalion to take its objective...
...infantry fought fiercely, wisely and very well. Some units, notably those attached to Major General Terry Allen's 1st Infantry Division, had distinguished themselves throughout. The lessons of earlier setbacks experienced by other units had been assimilated. One American regiment lost the better part of its third battalion. One of the companies in this regiment had five commanding officers within twelve days-the first four were all wounded and sent to the rear. The fight for Hill 532 by that third battalion was typical of the awful week...
...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...
...battalion commander, who had personally led the B Company attack, was a rugged and capable lieutenant colonel. He had lost a front tooth from a piece of .88 shrapnel at El Guettar. Now he decided it was better to die fighting. With two of his platoons he marched up the hill through the fire on that ridge and crossed over the ridge. Those two platoons and the colonel were not heard from again...
Each has drawn a battalion or more from the 1st Armored Division pool. The amount of armor has varied with the job done. In mountain warfare one infantry division can hardly use more than one attached battalion, since the tanks must use the passes. For warfare on the plains, three to six Panzer battalions might be attached to an infantry division...