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concenTraTion oT power suTTicienT To sTop Rommel shorT of Thala and drive him back Through The Tamed Kasserine Pass. LaTer, on l March I943, The 39Th lnTanTry RegimenT helped To recapTure GaTsa and El GueTar in a drive which resulTed in The capTure oT BizerTe on 8 May l943 by The ll Corps. oT which The 39Th was a parT. The Middle EasT was aT lasT saTe and ATrica had been liberaTed Trom The Axis. ' On The l4Th oT July, aTTer a much needed resT The 39Th lnTanTry Regimeni' leTT BizerTe-bound Tor The LicaTa-Gela beachhead in Sicily. CombaT was noT long delayed. From I7-24 July The regimenT was aTTached To The 82nd Airborne Division. TogeTher They pushed Trom LicaTa To Marsala- sparking The oTTensive which cuT oTT The enemy in The wesT, beaTing a sTeady paTh Torward-Through AgrigenTo, Ribera. lvlenTi, CasTelveTrano, lvlazaro and Marsala. The 39Th con- Tinued To move, execuTing a brillianT aTTack againsT Cerami, iusT wesT oT Nicosia, on 29Th oT July. lT was around This Time ThaT The almosT legendary Colonel I-l. A. Paddy FlinT Took command oT The 39Th, leading Them in a drive on Randazzo wiTh success. Messina Tell To The 9Th Division on The l7Th oT AugusT which broughT vicTory in Sicily. On The l ITh oT November, The Division was aT sea head- ing Tor England. ATTer The men oT The 39Th landed aT Swan- sea, They moved To Camp BarTon STacey where seven monThs were spenT in This area Training Tor The invasion oT Europe. By The l ITh oT June The 39Th lnTanTry was almosT compleTely ashore, ready Tor combaT. The 39Th was aTTached To The 4Th Division To assisT in desTroying a line oT TorTs Trom TareT de Ravenoville To Quineville. LiTTle Time was wasTed by Paddy FlinT and his 39Th lnTanTry RegimenT. On The l2Th oT June The regimenT launched a powerTul aTTack, The TirsT acTion oT a NinTh Division uniT on The ConTinenT oT Europe. ATTer The successTul capTure oT Quineville, The 39Th reioined The 9Th Division. wiTh The aTTack conTinuing To The wesT, reaching The ATlanTic coasT on I8 June. On The 4Th oT July The regi- menT moved souThward Toward CareTan. The hugh oTTensive was To sTarT To The souTh and easT. This journey To combaT heralded The NinTh Division's enTry inTo The well remembered Ba++Ie oT The l-ledgerows Trom I-25 July. The 39Th had parTicipaTed in The capTure oT Quineville, ST. Lo, The CoTenTin Peninsula and Cherbourg. Now began The baTTles aT The Falaise Gap, The race across France, The Ardennes, The campaigns OT NorThern France, The Rhineland and CenTral Europe. The enemy was pushed souTh, and aTTer a Tremendous aerial bombardmenT, The 39Th pushed Through The gap in The German lines, and wiTh The Third Army poured inTo BriTTany Peninsula. Q
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In SepTember and OcTOber The regimenT pushed on Through The SiegTried Line in The viciniTy OT RoeTgen. Ger- many, To The l'luerTgen ForesT, where The easTern edge OT The TOresT was cleared and The NorTh-SOuTh road Trom The Duren CUT. The close OT I944 saw The 39Th in The area sOuTh OT Duren, and The German break Through, known as The BaTTle OT The Bulge, in Belgium deTeaTed. IT was on The high ground OT KalTerherberg ThaT TfSgT PeTer J. Dalessondro, who was one OT The many ouTsTanding and courageous men OT The 39Th InTanTry RegimenT, dis- played ExTraordinary I-IerOism in leading his pIaToon in The deTense OT an impOrTanT road iuncTion on The high ground which bounds The ciTy. SgT Dalessondro saved his company Trom a disasTrous deTeaT, buT was capTured in The eTTorT. I-Ie received The Congressional Medal OT Honor Trom Presi- denT Truman aTTer his release aT The end OT The war. In The monThs leTT OT The war in Europe, The 39Th moved Torward Thru wesTern Germany To Dessau and made cOnTacT wiTh The Russians in ThaT area aT The conclusion OT The war on 9 May I945. From May To OcTober I945 The 39Th was sTaTiOned aT Aichach, Germany, where The regimenT served as occupaTiOn Torces. From ThaT Time unTil June I946 The 39Th was sTaTioned aT Rosenheim, Germany and Then Bad Tolz where iT was deacTivaTed on 30 November I946. The 39Th InTanTry RegimenT was reacTivaTed Tor The second Time as a uniT OT The 9Th InTanTry Division, a newly Tormed Training division, on I5 July I947 aT ForT Dix, New Jersey. The 39Th, wiTh Col. Nelson I. Foolcs, InTanTry, as iTs presenT commanding oTTicer, has served since This Time as an imporTanT linlc in building a peaceTime army by providing new enlisTees wiTh The necessary ToundaTion Tor miliTary IiTe-basic Training. CAMPAIGNS CAMPAIGNS-WORLD WAR I. Aisne-Marne 2. Meuse-Argonne 3. Meuse River 4. Arclennes 5. Lorraine . ST. Mihigl f Q. 7. Champagne CAMPAIGNS-WORLD WAR II I., Algeria-French Morocco 2.. Tunisia-Sicily 3. Normandy 4. NorThern France 5. Ardennes-Alsace 6. Rhinelancl 7. CenTraI Europe
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