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CONNECTICUT MEN 91St - Powder River - Division September 1945 91St DIVISION COMES HOME the 91St (Powder River) Division Came Camp Patrick Henry CONNECTICUT MEN 91st - Powder River - Division September 1945 91st DIVISION COMES HOME The 91st (Powder River) Division came Camp Patrick Henry. Those on the home during the latter part of August Wakefield who disembarked at Boston and the beginning of September. The were sent to Camp Myles Standish, Mass. veterans of the Italian campaign arrived From these camps they were sent to their aboard six ships, five of which berthed at respective reception stations, the Con• Hampton Roads, Virginia, and one, the necticut men being sent to Fort Devens, Wakefield, carrying the advanced detach• Mass. There high point men were sent ment, docked in Boston. Victory ships to the Separation Center to be processed which brought elements of the division for release and low score men were given home were the Pauchaug, La Crosse and 30 day "recuperation furlough". Fur¬ the Dominican. Other ships carrying loughed men were due to report back to divisional troops were the USS Mount Devens between September 25 and Octo• Vernon and the SS Felipe De Neve. ber 15, but may receive extensions. The first contingent of the main body As this was written there was no official of the famed 91st landed on August 26 word as to the future of the division upon from the Pauchaug Victory. This group the return of its members from furloughs. included the 91st Sig. Co., Hq. Co., Serv. Co., Antitank Co., Cannon Co., Co. B., Antitank Platoon and Hq. Co. 1st Bn., 363d Inf. CONNECTICUT SERVICEMEN'S COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET Four days later, the Dominican Victory docked with the following units aboard: Vol. 1 Sept. 25, 1945 No. 16 1st Bn. Hq. & Hq. Co., A, B, C and D CARLETON B. CLYMA. Editor Cos., the Antitank Co., Cannon Co. and Serv. Co. of the 361st Inf., 1st Bn. Hq. This booklet on the return of the 91st (Powder River) Division from the European Co. and A, B and C Cos. of the 363d Inf. war was prepared by the Office of the Gover• On September 10, the Mount Vernon, nor, as an addition to their souvenirs and pictured on the cover of this booklet, memorabilia of participation in the defeat SS Felipe De Neve and the La Crosse of the once great Axis Armies. The courtesies and assistance of public Victory docked at Hampton Roads. The relations officers, at the ports and at the Mount Vernon brought home the 2d Bn. Fort Devens Reception Station greatly of the 363d Inf., the 362d Inf., Hq. & Hq. facilitated the gathering of the material Co., Band Hq., Sp. Trps., Div. Med. Det., for this booklet. The group pictures are from Signal Corps photographs. The Battle 791st Ord. LM Co., 348th F.A. Bn., Log and Facts herein were prepared by 91st Cav. Ren. Trp. and the 316th Eng. the Office of Technical Information, Combat Bn. The Felipe De Neve carried Army Ground Forces. the 316th Med. Bn. A limited number of copies are available for distribution to Connecticut men of Disembarking from the La Crosse the Division. They can be secured by Victory were the MP Plat., 91st Q.M. Co., written request to the Office of the Gover• Hq. & Hq. Btry., Div. Arty., 346th F.A. nor, State Capitol, Hartford. Bn., 347th and 916th F.A. Bns. Reproduction of original material is per• missible only with written authorization. Upon leaving the ships at Hampton Roads, the men were transported to 2 91st DIVISION BATTLE LOG To the Arno — Breaking of the Gothic barrier, a rocky escarpment rising at some Line in Italy, manned by some of the points over 1800 feet, flanked on either finest troops which Germany could muster, side by a series of commanding hills. was an outstanding achievement of the 91st Infantry Division. The Powder River At Livergnano — Here, in the vicinity division delivered a punch to the Nazis of Livergnano, the 91st fought its most which helped knock the enemy out of the bloody and costly battle. On Oct. 13, 1944, war. First unit of the division to enter the Germans finally began to crack and combat was the 361st Infantry Regiment Livergnano was occupied. which received its baptism of fire south of Rome June 3, 1944. The division entered Po to Trieste — Then followed the battle for the first time as a complete unit long winter siege during the first part of on July 12, 1944, near Chianni, Italy. 1945, but the 91st was back in action once Soon such towns as Terriciola, Bagni, again by the end of February, 1945, and Capannoli, fell to the 91st's advance. It fanned out over the Po Valley area which was not long before the Germans withdrew had been reached by Fifth Army elements. and the 91st claimed for itself the record Bologna was behind the 91st, and the time of being the first to reach the Arno River. was at hand for pummeling the enemy in a final smash. Soon the division's regiments On to Pisa — On the same day, July had swept in an arc towards the Adriatic 18, 1944, the 363d Infantry Regiment, Sea, and, supporting the British Eighth operating as a task force, captured Leghorn Army's drive along the coast, was mopping and five days later held Marina di Pisa, up in Trevis when fighting ceased. The as well as a section of Pisa which lies below division was moved into the Trieste area the Arno. During Aug. 1944, the division shortly after the end of the fighting. held defensive positions along the Arno. History — The 91st was activated in The Gothic Line — On Sept. 12, 1944, Oct. 1917, from selective service men the great campaign against the Gothic drawn largely from California, Idaho, Line began. This was the most complete Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and series of fortifications in Italy. There were Wyoming. It trained at Fort Lewis, Wash., miles of barbed wire and scores of pillboxes and landed in France in July, 1918. There, manned by seasoned German troops. Yet after further intensive training, it joined within ten days the 91st wiped out the the American First Army receiving its entire defensive system. During this period baptismal fire on Sept. 20, 1918, in the the division captured 815 prisoners and Meuse-Argonne. Following this the divis• decimated the best troops Hitler could put ion fought in Belgium where it helped in the line. After pursuing the retreating drive the Germans beyond the Scheldt enemy all the way from the Arno River to River. On return to this country in 1919 Loiano, the division came to a formidable the division was demobilized. 3 91st DIVISION STORIES EDITOR'S NOTE: Memories of the European experience will blur with the passing of years. Accuracy will diminish. Details will become vague and half forgotten. To record, in black and white here and now, the mood, the impressions, the exciting events of the worst days and the best is the purpose of these stories. Connecticut men of the 91st were asked for their own stories and impressions and in their own words they are here so recorded: Agnew, Thomas J., Jr., Pfc, Co. L., 363d Aubin, Ernest O., Pfc, Co. B., 316th Inf., Hartford. M.D. Bn., Killingly. "The best time we had in Italy was the "Nobody who ever crawled on their drive through the Po Valley—April 18 hands and knees up those trails on Mt. to May 4. It was a picnic. We got lots of Grande will ever forget it. It seemed as if fresh eggs, veal and milk, and some salami it rained every day. Our casualties were and wine. There were big farms in the heavy. We were under continuous shell- Valley and the Italians there were pretty fire night and day. That's the only place well off. The Valley was not much damaged I slept in two foxholes in Italy and I got by the war." washed out of both of them." Anastasion, Gerald J., Pfc, Co. L., Bardelli, Lawrence T., Pfc, Co. D., 363d Inf., New Britain. 361st Inf., Bridgeport. "Just before we took Bologna I had "The way the people acted when we some fun herding a German general back liberated Vincenza, Bologna, and other from the lines. The Germans had left a lot cities is something we will always re• of their horses loose around there when member. They swarmed into the streets they pulled out and I was riding one. I waving flags and flowers, and handing us was ordered to take about 30 or 40 prison• eggs, salami, bread, wine and any food ers back including this general. I don't they had. They were happy. The Italians think he was used to walking. He was treated us pretty well all the way through. always slowing up and falling back. He Now it is over I'm glad I was there, but tried to load his baggage on a German there were many times over there I wished private, but I picked up a stick and nudged that I was home." him in the rear and made him carry his own stuff and walk faster. He didn't seem Baschetto, Sebastiano, Pfc, Co. H., to like it for a damn, but there was 361st Inf., Winsted. nothing he could do about it." "I didn't get a chance to talk to Clare Boothe Luce when she visited our battal• Arsenault, Joseph E., Pfc, M.D., ion at the front on Easter Day. I was at 2d Bn., 361st Inf., Milford. church at the time. Some of the days over "I spent 14 months on duty with the there weren't so bad, but I could have a 70th General Hospital in Africa.
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