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WORLD WAR ll The 6OTh lnTanTry was desTined To conTinue iTs glorious war record achieved in W.W. l. As a UniT oT The 9Th Division, The 6OTh lnTanTry was singled ouT To Take parT in one oT The TirsT major oTTensives by an American Force in W.W. ll. During Two years OT inTensive Training Trom l94O To l942, The 6OTh lnTanTry was To earn Tor iTselT, a well earned repuTaTion as one oT The TinesT and mosT eTTicienT combaT Teams in The U. S. Army. IT also received a nick- name Go-Devils. ATTer compleTing amphibious maneu- vers in l942, The 6OTh embarked aT l-lampTon Roads. Va., arriving in NorTh ATrica on 8 November I942. ShorTly aTTer arrival The 6OTh CombaT Team was given The mission oT securing and holding The airporT serving The Town oT PorT LyauTey, N. A. This mission was compleTed aTTer 3 days oT combaT. The RegimenT reTurned To The 9Th Division locaTed in lviamora ForesT, souTh OT PorT LyauTey, French Morocco, where iT remained unTil Jan- uary I943. On I8 February I943 The 6OTh was ordered To move Toward Tunisia, and Take up posiTions in The viciniTy oT ThelepTe and Feriania recenTly vacaTed by The enemy. March I943 The 6OTh lnTanTry reverTed To a combaT Team and wenT inTo acTion againsT The enemy when iT was ordered To ioin The lsT Armored Division. Fully moTorized, The 6OTh CombaT Team aTTacked The well- TorTiTied enemy posiTion oT Diebel Goussa, a hill mass dominaTing The rail line running To The sea near STaTion De Sened. The place everybody ToughT Tor and nobody wanTed. The 6OTh launched iTs aTTack during The nighT and was singularly successTul. Company G, under The Command oT CapTain Wil- lard H. Barnwell, was ordered To police up The area near De Sened. Enemy arTillery coming Trom This Town was causing a greaT deal oT disTurbance. CapTain Barnwell wiTh PrivaTe lvloloTov, issued an ulTimaTum To The enemy garrison in Sened, Surrender or be wiped ouTf This was ignored by The enemy, whereupon G Company, wiTh lsT Armored ArTillery supporT, aTTacked Sened. This bold move caused The enemy To surrender. By audaciTy and quick acTion G Company killed or capTured nearly a BaTTalion oT The enemy and iTs supporTing arms. In April I943, The elemenTs oT The 6OTh CombaT Team were reTormed aT Bon Chebka, on The Tunicia-Algeria drive norTh, and The baTTle oT Sedienane Valley. WiTh The Corps Franc d ATrique, The RegimenT ToughT iTs way To BizerTe. Here, The RegimenT remained unTil 29 July, when iT sailed Tor Sicily, landing aT Palermo, lTaly. In The Sicilian Campaign, The 6OTh CombaT Team was called inTo acTion by The 9Th Division Commander on 5 AugusT I943. The German ArTillery Trom Troiana, had halTed The aTTack oT The IsT Division Tor 3 days. The 6OTh execuTed a Tlanking movemenT on The Germans in Troiana, by aTTacking and Taking MonTe PelaTo.
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This successTul acTion by The 60Th caused The Germans To wiThdraw Their arTillery supporT on Troiana, General Bradley sTaTed This movemenT by The 60Th was insTru- menTal in The deTeaT oT The enemy holding Troiana. On 20 AugusT, General Eisenhower announced ThaT The Island oT Sicily was Tree oT The enemy. The 60Th deparTed The shores oT Sicily II November I943, arriving in England 25 November I943, where iT engaged in inTensive Training near WinchesTer unTil iT sailed in June I944 Tor France. As parT oT The 9Th Division, The 6OTh, aTTer landing aT UTah Beach, helped clear up The CoTenTin Peninsula. ATTer I8 days in The TronT lines The 60Th moved souTh To Les Pieux Tor a brieT resT. OuT oT This acTion, one oT The ouTsTanding hero's oT The 60Th, was posThurnousIy awarded The Congressional Medal oT I-Ionor, LT Jack BuTTs, PIaToon Leader, E Company. WiTh indomi+abIe spiriT and a Tierce deTerminaTion To lead his men, LT BuTTs reTused medical aid aTTer being wounded on The I4Th and again on The l6Th oT June. I-Ie conTinued TighTing and leading his pIaToon unTil one week laTer, when he was sTruck down by enemy machine gun Tire. DeTermined To The lasT, LT BuTTs holding his sTomach TogeTher, goT up and made a lone TronTaI assualT Tocusing all The enemy aTTenTion To himseIT. When only I0 yards Trom The enemy TorTiTicaTion LT BuTTs was again machine gunned. I-Ie rose no more, buT his acTions noT only saved his pIaToon buT made iT possible Tor Them To desTroy The posiTion. Such are The TighTing men oT The 60Th. The 60Th conTinued To build iTs repuTaTion as a combaT RegimenT in all The resT oT The European campaigns, righT down To The lasT shoT Tired aT OOOI, 9 May I945. Honors Tor The campaigns in which The 60Th has par- TicipaTed in are: W.W. I-Alsace Lorraine-ST. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne. W.W. II--Tunisia, Algeria-French Morocco, Sicily, Normandy, NorThern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhine- land, and CenTral Europe. Following uniTs have received DisTinguished UniT STreamers: 2nd BaTTaIion-Sedjenane Valley, ST. Colombe, Schwam- mauel Damm. B Company-Germany. Medical DeTachmenT-3d Bn-BlaimonT Belgium. Following uniTs have received MeriTorious UniT STream- ers: Service Company-European TheaTre. Medical DeTachmenT-6OTh InT-European TheaTre. The RegimenT has The Tollowing decoraTions: STreamer, French Croix de Guerre-wiTh palm embroid- ered CoTenin Peninsula. STreamer, Belgian Croix de Guerre--embroidered Meuse River. STreamer, Belgian Croix de Guerre-embroidered Ar- dennes. Fourragere oT The Belgian Croix de Guerre. AssaulT landing crediT Tor NorTh ATrica. Commanding OT-Ticers oT The 60Th InTanTry RegimenT, pasT and presenT, in order oT Their command: Colonel Frank B. I-Iawkins, Colonel Frank C. Mahin lThe laTe Mai Generali, Colonel William I-I. Wilbur, Colonel Frederick J. DeRohan, Colonel I-Ialley, Colonel Louis S. STickney, LT Colonel William Law, and our presenT commander, Colonel John J. Dubbelde, Jr. PEACE TIME The 60Th was inacTivaTecl on 30 November 1946, only To be reacTivaTed here aT ForT Dix on I5 July I947. Since ThaT Time To The presenT The 60Th InTanTry UniTs have Trained a ToTal oT 25,000 men. The prowess oT The 60Th InTanTry Go-Devils on The aThleTic Tield has carried Them To The Top, as wiTnessed by The presenTaTion oT The Commanding General's Trophy Tor aThIeTics Tor Two successive years. FirsT place in The Tollowing sporTs in I948: Swimming, Boxing, Tennis, Volleyball, and I-Iorseshoes. I949: Boxing, Tennis, and Volleyball. This RegimenT is iusTIy proud oT iTs TradiTions and achievemenTs, boTh in CombaT and Peace Time.
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