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...past three weeks I have traveled over considerable portions of Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria watching our troops and the people they are governing. In Asch, Czechoslovakia, I saw truckloads of displaced Russian civilians starting out for repatriation, guided by G.I.s of the ist Division who vied for the job because they had so much fun behind the Russian lines with the hard-drinking Red Army soldiers...
...torn coconut plantations, crossed the Tenaru River, fought the battle of Lunga Ridge; how they grabbed the airfield and hung on, almost out of supplies, ravaged by malaria, while the Japs poured in reinforcements. That tropical battleground became the focus of a nation's anxiety. If the ist had failed, the damage to U.S. plans and morale would have been incalculable. But the ist hung on. buried its hundreds of dead and counted the enemy dead in the thousands...
...late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three weeks 1,038 of the ist had been killed or were missing, 4,650 wounded. But in less than four weeks of fighting 11,083 Japs lay dead on Peleliu and U.S. forces...
...veterans of Guadalcanal are still with the ist. Their casualties have equalled almost an entire division. Last week the ist was taking more casualties on Okinawa, 3,350 miles from Henderson Field, only 960 miles from Tokyo. It still had the same twofold mission-take the objective, kill the Japs...
...Hofer working to get pictures for him, although Hofer was always the man who closed the deal. There is considerable mention of "Task Force Rosenberg," which as near as I could figure out went around France, Holland and Belgium, confiscating art collections. There is also frequent correspondence with a ist Lieut. Dillenberg. who seems also to have kept an eye out for choice objects, perhaps as a member of the "Art Historical Detachment" of the Luftwaffe, which is mentioned several times...