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Tomahawk Strikes A large format, single sheet paper issued to members of the 83rd at the end of WW2. It does not have a date. One side is the text below and the reverse is a map showing the route of the 83rd in Europe. |
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TOMAHAWK STRIKES FROM SIEGFRIED LINE TO VICTORY XIX CORPS MOVES TO THE ROER Having smashed the Siegfried Line, and made possible the capture of Aachen, XIX Corps prepared to move up to the Roer River and set the stage for the final drive into the heart 0f Germany. On the 18th of October we welcomed our new Corps Commander, Major General Raymond S. McLain, a battle-tried fighting soldier, whose trial by fire had started as a machine-gun company commander in the First World War. In the current war he had led troops under fire in some of the grimmest fighting in the Mediterranean and France: in Sicily, at Salerno, and Anzio, in the fighting in Normandy with the 30th Division Artillery; later as the commander of the 90th Division. His unmistakable mark has been on all the subsequent operations of this fighting Corps: its through planning and preparation, its speed of attack, its recognition of the doughboys' and tankers' problems, and the constant insistence on the least possible cost of every operation in human lives.
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