Marion, I'll get it posted here and you can move it when you can, how about that?
Throughout the years and perhaps for centuries, the story of the 34th "red Bull" division's battle to extract the Germans from the villages and mountains, will be told as oneof individual and collective heroism. No army of men has ever demonstrated more sacrifice, persistence, and courage in an effort to attain victory. Wheb officers fell, the privates took over. The lived up to the motto Capt "Wash" Carter and Capt. Roy Stephenson had suggested, Attack - Attack - Attack!
British historians have frequently seemed to have a fetish for downgrading American military actio, while enhancing their own. however, Dominick Graham, who wrote the book "Cassino", had this to say about the Red Bull Division. Quote"
"Considering the conditions and the unsuitability of some of their equipment, the performance of the US 34thInfantry Division, a National Guard outfit, in coming within an ace of cracking the mountain defenses of Cassino, is almost beyond praise" Unquote
Graham goes on toe quote Fred Majdalany, a British Indian Division Company Commander. Quote"
"Ther performance of the 34th Division at Cassino must rank with the finest feats of arms carried out by any soldier during the War. When at last relieved by the 4th Indian Division, fifty of those few who had held on to the last were too numbed with cold exhaustion to move. They could still man their positions, but they could not move out of them unaided. They were carried out on stretchers." Unquote.
Dear God, how those Red Bull men had fought against overwhelming German odds in manpower, field fortifications and horrendous weaponry. Each time they had been called upon to attack they did so with determination and ferocity. Their exemplary performance in combat will serve forever as a source of pride for American fighting forces.