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35TH INFANTRY DIVISION
Santa Fe Division • World War II

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DOCUMENT OVERVIEW

Written under the authority of Major General Paul W. Baade, Commanding General of the 35th Infantry Division, this official unit history chronicles the full combat record of the Santa Fe Division from its Federal activation in December 1940 through demobilization in late 1945. The narrative covers ten months of near-continuous offensive action across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany—encompassing the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, the breakout at St. Lô, the relief of Bastogne, and the final drive to the Elbe River—drawing on after-action reports, command letters, and firsthand accounts to document one of the most aggressive divisional combat records of the European Theater. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original printed volume.

CAMPAIGNS: Normandy • Northern France • Ardennes-Alsace • Rhineland • Central Europe

COMMANDERS: MG Paul W. Baade (Commanding General) • BG Edmund B. Sebree (Asst. Division Commander, Oct 1943–Feb 1945) • BG Butler M. Miltonberger (Asst. Division Commander, Feb–Nov 1945) • BG Theodore L. Futch (Division Artillery Commander) • Col. Maddrey A. Solomon (Chief of Staff)

Division paper: Santa Fe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
– Dedication and Foreword
– Prologue: The Division’s History and the Santa Fe Patch
– Ready and Waiting
– The Task Ahead
– The Battle of St. Lô – Normandy Campaign
– Beyond St. Lô to Vire
– Mortain – Santa Fe to the Rescue
– Orléans – Modern Joan of Arc
– Sens, Troyes, Pithiviers, Montargis, Nancy
– Sarreguemines and the Saar River Crossing
– Into Germany
– Bastogne
– South to the Vosges Mountains
– Over the Rhine and into the Ruhr
– To Berlin’s Doorstep
– Occupation and Home

“If the History of the 35th Division could be written in one word, that word would be ‘attack.’”
— Major General Paul W. Baade, Commanding General, 35th Infantry Division