US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Chaffee, AR)

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Ji' 4 vs 1 ' if . S 'il ksifm , X9 . :vu fi 'I 'cxwfs VT' T de 5 I ' ,E-. f f- , , . - N ,V ,J I . 1-an ,svn .- M. u . +1 , uv.- xg ., , T V .. - American armor ' - confinue H' , rolls info ...... Tig, T in low e ' rapid 'he Yown f M, I6 Auigidghe road is :gvance .foward opaqmux. France ag ' f' . s .. . ewn with w,.eCkedr:EeThe gmoie offhg ,American fman armor. Drei He hangs uxr Ffance' disiinguished iiself in +he Eure-Seine Campaign, winning a commendaiion from 'fhe XV Corps Commander. Sepiember I944 found The 5+h, now shiiied io +he Firsi Army, ready 'ro si'ar+ a l30-miie push from Paris norih +o Belgium. On 'ihis operaiion, ihe division cu'r ihrough +he Compiegne Foresi, crossed +he rivers Oise, Aisne, and Somme. The uni+ was ihen seni racing anoiher IOO miles 'ro ihe Meuse River. Pushing onward, ihe 5+h iook par+ in +he liberaiion of Luxembourg. On II Sepiember I944 Germany was peneiraiedz fhe Our River was crossed, in ihe viciniiy of Sfaizembourg. The 5+h ihen parficipaied in fhe iirsi' crossing of +he Moselle in November I944. The mos+ biH'er fighiing experienced by 'rhe division occured in December during ihe baffle of ihe Hur'I'gen Foresi' and ihe approaches io 'rhe Roer River. The wea+her was as bi'Her as ihe iigh+ing. The savage iighiing ai Hur'I'gen broke +he German spiriig never again did ihe enemy figh+ wiih such ierocify and ienaciousness. The 5'rh 1-1 he . d ned bv T fri-,-.,---'- T' r Tank was ihetiast 125' 1474777 T ,TTT e nl I I .I This knocked iiiiaiir iiiqht i'?m bkigfgead the YOVU' France German? merican assauif inch ii ferrifiC 'T' vf 557 fyr' aw: .rf Q! 'L as X 'KJK -347 suv 1 hiznfy nl ig f' A Q w ' j 'ci A 41. ,, T M . -41,-iff'-f T 3 -

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E 'he E-ie, May 2. As ic hey . W.. New F was mil 'ce of k 1x , Lfil 5' for ll 156 bn! ffl 'R ,.A,a 274 4412! -'I' I :'f,4w'E tl' ,E+ .ff .ny W ,slip ,A fidgf- ., ,M ' . aim! 1 if x u1 sy i V3 X mf 'f , vt I A ,A Q Agia M 'H 4 M embers of fh F- eh Y' X, N flea 0 ffh r Hamelh. Ger,,l,anyALrln:3d Division di 1 45, a fank ou' enfire Reserve Command was awarded a Presidenfial Unif Cifafion for disfinguishing ifself in acfion in fhe Hurfgen Foresf during fhe period 29 November - 8 December I944. On 6 July I948, fhe 5fh Armored Division was reacfivafed as a fraining division. A+ fhis fime, fhe division was based af Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. From Ocfober I948 unfil March I949, fhe division followed an eighf week fraining program. In March I949 fhe program was increased fo I4 weeks. On Camp Chaffee's 75.000-acre reservafion, as many as l8,000 men af one fime have frained wifh fhe division. In ifs mission of fraining as well as in ifs war-fime mission, fhe 5fh Armored has sfrived for one goal: fo do ifs job fo fhe besf of ifs abilify. All who have come info confacf wifh fhe division agree fhaf fhe iob has been well done. 'th Of' mv cove' W an- OffiC8fS of c?e:::::eQfNodheim. Germ 0 n surrehdu ' Q icerS of Fm '