I joined the 34th at the last battle, Siddi Bel Abez,
I can't find that in "An Army at Dawn". When you say "the last battle", do you refer to the final push thru Tunisia and the capture of Bizerte?? I'm almost finished the book; I'm at the battle of Fondouk Pass.
I also searched the pages you reference. Are those from that book? I can't find them. But I have read the part about Darby's Rangers. When the 45th Division got hit hard at Anzio, Darby was placed in charge of the 179th Infantry Regiment in Feb 1944 for a brief period.
I like what this book has about him under the photo caption: "No one who met him ever doubted that he was born to lead other men in the dark of night". While leading Task Force Darby, he was mortally wounded by a single artillery shell at the end of the Italian Campaign near Riva on the shore of Lake Garda on 29 April 1945.
Tell you what custermen, read the whole book!!!!!!
I'm reading and re-reading it. Great stuff. It helps understand what happened next in Sicily and Italy.
Steve