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60th I FA TRY RIEGIIVIENT History The birTh OT The 6OTh InTanTry RegimenT Took place aT GeTTysburg NaTional Park, Ra., on I0 June I9I7, by auThOrizaTion OT Congress on 3 June I9I7. WiTh per- sonnel Trom The 7Th InTanTry Division Torming The nucleus Tor The Cadre Corps OT The RegimenT, The UniT moved To Camp Greene, NorTh Carolina, Tor inTensive Training. I'Iere, They were assigned TO The newly organized 9Th Brigade, 5Th Division. This assOciaTiOn was TO cOnTinue Throughoulr World War I. WORLD WAR I On I6 April I9I8, The 6OTh InTanTry RegimenT sailed Trom T'lOboken, New Jersey wiTh elemenTs OT The IJniT landing aT Liverpool, England, and ST. Nazaire, France, 28-29 April I9l8. The EspriT de Corps and TighTing gualiTies OT This newly Tormed UniT were Torcibly brOughT TO The aTTenTiOn OT The World by Their Tierce deTerminaTion in aTTecTing The crossing OT The lvleuse River on 5 November I9I8. I Company, commanded by CapTain E. C. AllwOrTh, reinTOrced by The remainder OT The 3rd BaTTaIiOn, leap- Trogged over The 2nd BaTTalion, in The Tace OT sTrong enemy arTillery Tire, Tor The TirsT successTul allied crossing Over The Ivleuse River. General Pershing reTerred TO This acTiOn as One OT The mosT brillianT TeaTs in The hisTory OT The American Army in France. CapTain AllworTh received The highesT miliTary award, The Congressional Ivledal OT I-IOnOr, and HI Company was ciTed by The U. S. Army. llAmericals greaTesT dOughbOy, so sTaTed General Pershing, OT anoTher member OT The 6OTh InTanTry, namely CapTain Sam WOodTill. During The MeuseeArgOnne OT- Tensive in November I9I8, M Company, 3rd BaTTaliOn, under CapTain WoooITilI, Tound iT impossible To advance againsT The enemy due To a series OT machine gun nesTs. Singlehandedly, CapTain WoodTill, eguipped wiTh a sharpshOoTer riTle inched his way Torward, and one by one desTroyed The machine gun nesTs, killing I9 OT The enemy. For This exTraordinary TeaT OT heroism, CapTain WoOdTill was awarded The Congressional Medal OT I-Ionor. Following The ArmisTice, The 6OTh InTanTry perTOrmed occupaTion duTies in Luxembourg unTiI 6 July I9I9, when iT embarked Tor New York, landing I9 July I9I9. ATTer discharging a large porTiOn OT iTs personnel The RegimenT shipped To Camp Gordon, and Tinally To Camp Jackson, SouTh Carolina where iT was inacTivaTed 2 SepTember I92I. The inacTive Regimenlr remained assigned To The 5Th Division unTiI I5 AugusT I927, iTs assignmenT was changed Tor a six year period To The 8Th Division. The 5Th Division released The 6OTh InTanTry Trom assignmenT when The IaTTer was reacTivaTed IO AugusT I94-O. I:OrT Bragg, NorTh Carolina was The permanenT sTaTiOn aT This Time, and assignmenT was To The 9Th Division.
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