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About This Book This is primarily a book of pictures, intended to convey to each of the fifty thousand wearers of the T-Patch, their relatives and friends, a first-hand recollection of the battles we've fought and the places we've been. No one volume could begin to do this completely nor to cite individual honors as they ought to be told. Therefore it is a very general story about the 36th Division and names are rarely mentioned in the body of the text. Historically, though limited in scope to the point where a platoon action may be lost as it is woven into the bigger picture of the Division accomplishment as a whole, the book is accurate, done in the light of the combat records and verified by a personal check of our combat leaders. The story of the 36th at Salerno, at the Rapido, in the Vosges and through the Siegfried, is a grim one which the pictures available can only partially portray. The mud and the sweat, the sleepless nights and the noise cannot be brought into your living room in a crisply bound book. But we hope it will serve even your children's children as a memento of the strained months and years you marched and fought with the 36th.
A Pictorial
History of the 36th Division Introduction |
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Italy |
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France |
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