Description

10th Infantry Regiment
5th Infantry Division • World War II •
184 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
Compiled by the Public Relations Section of the Tenth Infantry Regiment under Col. Robert P. Bell, this combat narrative traces the Regiment’s part in the drive that carried the 5th Infantry Division “from Normandy to Czechoslovakia,” opening with its pre-war lineage and Iceland garrison duty and following its landing on Utah Beach through France, the Ardennes, and Germany to V-E Day, closing with a full casualty accounting and a regimental map of major engagements. This listing is for a digital download of a scanned copy of the original photo-illustrated volume.

Campaigns: Normandy — Utah Beach landing; Northern France, including Angers, Chartres, and Metz; the Ardennes Offensive and the Moselle, Sure, Sauer, and Rhine bridgeheads; Central Europe — the drive from the Siegfried Line through Frankfurt to Czechoslovakia.

Commanders: Colonel Robert P. Bell (Commanding Officer); Colonel Breckinridge (Regimental Commander); Lt. Col. Julian H. Martin (2nd Battalion); Lt. Col. Frank V. Langfitt, Jr. (1st Battalion); Major Alden P. Shipley (3rd Battalion).

Division newspaper: Diamond Dust

Table of Contents
History of the Tenth
Duck for Lunch
They Had Guts
We Take You to Angers
The Croix de Guerre
Another River
Champagne
At All Costs
Tough Assignment
Task Force Warnock
Situation Critical
The Impregnable Forts
Task Force Bell
The Tables Are Turned
We Jump Off
Mission Complete
We Add Up the Bill
Fight, Dig-In, and Fight
Another Bridgehead
The Siegfried Line
First in History
Frankfurt
Alles Kaput
Regimental Engagement Map

“We left to face staggering odds with the poignant promise: ‘We Will’. We returned saying: ‘We Did!’ We have accomplished our mission.”
— History of the Tenth Infantry Regiment