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The 5th Division in France Normandy Vidouville Chartres Monterenau
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In World War l the 5th Infantry Division made history and esta
blished its battle prestige by making a forced, bloody crossing of
the Meuse river 25 miles north of Verdun, on a two kilometer front and
advancing 18 kilometers to the obiective in the second Meuse-Agonne
offensive. In World War
II,
the 5th Infantry Division, still basically organized and equipped to move at the infantryman's foot-marching rate of 2 1
/2 miles per hour, made history by liberating 700 miles of
France in the miraculously short time of 27 days. In spearheading
the Third Army's eastward drive during August, the 5th Infantry
outsped the armored divisions. Its advance was a triumph of Improv
isation of organic division transportation, of quick and aggressive
battle action in wiping out organized German resistance, and of bold
daring in striking through the German army regardless of the danger
to exposed flanks and rear. In its drive, the 5th was always the
farthest east in combat strength, fighting its way quickly past organ
ized German groups in river crossings of the Maine, Eure, Seine,
Marne, Meuse, and in September, the bloody, muddy Moselle.
The story of the 5th Infantry Division through France is a story of
versatility and practical application of the division's motto "We Will".
If is a story of a division that earned a reputation with the Third Army
commander, Lieutenant-General George S. Patton, Jr., of being a
unit that when told to "get up and get" it "got up and got"; a story
of the military art and science of how to kill Germans, capture high
ground and force river-crossings; a story of the infinite courage and
sacrifice and fighting ability of the infantry, tank and tank-destroyer
teams, of the calculating skill and courage of the artillery, engineers
and signal corps, of the bravery and skill of the medics, and of the
foresight, improvisation and work of
the command and staff and the ser
vice and supply echelons of the
division. It is a narrative of an outfit
that
was the first division to go
overseas to outpost the North Atlan
tic Island of Iceland, later to train intensively in England and
North Ireland and then to establish the battle prestige of the Red
Diamond in the fighting in Normandy hedgerows, wooded Brittany,
important cities, the plains before Paris, famous rivers and the moated
forts around Metz.
The actual story is the story of the officers and men of the division,
particularly of those who are no longer with the division except in
memory. But the deeds of most of the latter were done without
benefit of witnesses to teil of them and perhaps that makes their
heroism the greater. And the deeds of the men now in the division have been so many that it is impossible to chronicle them all. What
the following story of the division, in text, sketch and photograph can
do is tell what the division accomplished, where it fought and indicate
by example how it fought.
This booklet was passed by censor as so stated on the back cover due to being printed during active conflict.  Very few histories were written during the war, but the 5th wanted it known about its victory over Metz.  There are 44 numbered pages including the photos and illustrations.