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

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V W , .. Y' fs.-' - bl'-y hillsidl in n B 'vision farm 0 - 5 neawf 'he American dr Hmm., armie ive Amana v.nicigi:2,, aiifhich wan ar Franc! 'gi -E3nAu9.. 44' . . . h iaiheflan Tdnlrs of , h F' House of Hsu: greered i945 by confinuing fo advance, and by hard flghhng during 1' e Bulge period. A+ Coblenz +he division wiped our all enemy resisfance. Spring of i945 found 'lhe division a parf of rhe Ninfh Army, and in May H' reached +he Elbe and fanned our in ihe viciniry of Tangermunde. As i+ crossed 'Phe Elbe River, +he 5+h Armored was rhe nearesf U.S. uni+ +o Berlin, iusi prior ro VE day. The division embarked for home on 2 Ocfober i945 and was inacfivared on ll Ocfober l945 a+ Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. d Von received from fhe XV Corps, In addiiion +o +he division commen a I Troop A, 85+h Reconnaisance Ba'Halion l+hen 85+h Cavalry Rcn Squadronl was awarded a Presideniial Unii Cifaiion for ou+s+anding performance of du+y in acfion from I5 fo 20 December I944: Companies B and C, 47+h ' ' P sideniial Uni+ Cifafion 'For Armored lnfanfry Baffalion, received a re ' of duly in ac+ion on 4-5 Seprember I944. The oufsfandlng performance ffh A n' Hollggrliid Division moving f orwwd Past 1 he Guest QWPQJQ- ,Ds 'O--vig, - rm

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,hy , qw, 1-msg? gi' ,- ,,,, l T .' m . , T Q image -X V.,. i n .E Amer' fonTilili:nH:l:g1o'ra:,ogs info me ,ow ow 4 n f '5 Avtidhe 'Gad if x::Tic'wairi'a'd orsiilwin F 'c'- as The A M A . wrecked germs smoke of by rnericans , n 6,-mor ores Tle hangs ' '- France disTinguished iTselT in The Eure-Seine Campaign winning a commendaTion Trom The XV Corps Commander SepTember II944 Tound Th 5Th . e , now shiTTed To The FirsT Army, ready To sTarT a l30-miie push Trom Paris norTh + B I . . . . . . o egium. On This operahon, The division cuT Through The Compiegne F'oresT, crossed The rivers Oise, Aisne and Somme The uniT w Th . . as en senT racing anoTher I00 miles To The Meuse River. Pushing onward, The 5Th To k T ' h l' o par in T e uberafion of Luxembourg. On II SepTember I944 Germany was peneTraTed: The Our River was crossed, in The viciniTy of STalzembourg. The 5Th Then parTicipaTed in The TirsT cr ' T h ossmg o T e Moselle in November I944. The mosT biTTer TighTing experienced by The division occured in December during The baTTle oT The HurTgen ForesT and The approaches To The Roer River. The weaTher was as biTTer as The TighTing. The savage TighTing aT HurTgen broke The German spiriTg never again did The enemy TighT wiTh such TerociTy and Tenaciousness. The 5Th d by The T k was TT10 last gehicle ?ria1Ti:o?:ce oi Tx: 1' ef an 1 . 'ant ' .20 AW- ' T This knocked tag' mghi Trona Eggfseas' the gown. France German? In rican BSWUN VNC Terriiic 'U' i if ,X 1' A. iv. l X -yr ' ' N ug .-.., , M 1 if ti 1 '

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1,4 if Momb. R rs if 'V 'Q' hx I nur H of ph. F., - .,. N W T , ,ASV an-mln Gerrri:l,'yA,Q::::d4Divisipn dig ' . 5. Qin en'l'ire Reserve Command was awarded a Presideniial Unii Ciiaiion for disiinguishing ifself in aciion in ihe Huri' e F g n oresi during 'l'he period 29 November - 8 December I944. On 6 July I948, 'ihe Sih Armored Division was reaciivaied as a +raining division. A+ ihis 'I'ime, 'ihe division was based ai' Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. From Ocfober i948 uniil March I949, ihe division followed an eighi week 'iraining program. ln March i949 ihe program was increased io I4 weeks. On Camp Cha'ffee's 75000 acre reser 1 , - va ion, as many as I8,000 men a+ one 'lime have 'irained wiih 'ihe division. ln iis mission of 1-raining as well as in iis war-iime mission, ihe 5i'h Armored has sfrived 'For one goal: io do iis iob +o ihe besi of iis abiliiy. All who have come inio con'l'aci' wiih ihe division agree ihai 'ihe job has been well done. , rod h officers of Flin' Mme wit G rvnan Nm' confer Gerrnhl'Y- ., ,xy H 9 9 6 fdllk' qui of m d U Division 'm Qflitiinii. .rm