The Fifth Infantry Division

    

    

World War II

 

 

   
 
 
     
 
 

 
      
 

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HRA File No. B0409030000100#7
  

30 September 1944, Lt. Col. Burn C. Cox, from Atlanta, GA, an officer in the 1st Division in 1918 and the sole remaining man who was in WW-I and still remaining in the 5th Infantry Division reads the plaque on a monument erected in honor of the Fifth Division and the part they played in WW-I. Plaque reads:

VIEVILLE-EN-HAYE
CAPTURED BY THE
5TH U. S. DIV. IN THE
ST. MIHIEL DRIVE
SEPT. 12TH 1918
ON THIS DAY THE
FRONT LINE OF THE
5TH DIV. WAS
ESTABLISHED ABOUT
THREE KILOMETERS
NORTH OF THIS POINT