Description

272nd Infantry Regiment
69th Infantry Division • World War II •

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Document Overview
Compiled by 1st Lt. E. Cline Fletcher, Editor and Historian, with a staff of assistant editors, artists, and reporters, this is the unofficial history of the “Battle Axe Regiment” — the 272nd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division — covering its activation at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on 15 May 1943 through its campaigns in Belgium and Germany to V-E Day. It includes the regimental commander’s foreword, staff and battalion rosters by company, the Rhine crossing, the Battle of Central Germany, decorations and awards, and a memorial roll of the fallen. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication, printed by J. J. Weber, Leipzig.

Campaigns: Belgium and Germany, including the Battle of Central Germany and the crossing of the Rhine River, concluding with V-E Day.

Commanders: Colonel Walter D. Buie, Regimental Commander; Lt. Col. Cecil J. Kennedy, Executive Officer; Lt. Col. Allen D. Raymond Jr., Battalion Commander; Lt. Col. Wayne G. Springer, Battalion Commander; Lt. Col. Edward J. Thompson, Battalion Commander.

Division newspaper: The Fighting 69th Sentinel

Table of Contents
Foreword
Regimental Commander
Regimental Staff
First Battalion
Second Battalion
Third Battalion
Regimental Headquarters
Medical Detachment
Cannon Company
Battle of Central Germany
The Rhine Crossing
Decorations and Awards
We Keep Faith

“Men of the Battle Axe Regiment, I salute you.”
— Colonel Walter D. Buie, Foreword