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A Partial History
135th Infantry Regiment "To The Last Man"		34th Infantry Division "Attack, Attack, Attack!"

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Introduction, not a part of the official history

The document sections which are linked to this 'cover page' are the edited transcriptions (see Note below) of an official field report. It was provided to the Association by Ray Rudolph, a veteran of the 135th Infantry Regiment, who prepared the sections up through Cassino while serving in the Regimental S-3 Section.

Another soldier later prepared the sections Anzio Beachhead through Gothic Line, but was captured on the 1944-1945 Winter Line. It is at that point in time that this transcription ends.

The field report project seems to have been dropped at that point, but raw material to bring the Regiment to the French border in May 1945, then the Yugoslav border in July 1945, and finally the United States in November 1945, ought to be found at the US National Archives facility in College Park MD.

The Background Of The 135th Infantry (p. 0)

The 135th In The Present War (p. 1-33)

Preparations for Combat, February 1941: Induction Into Federal Service (p. 1); Camp Claiborne And Fort Dix (pp. 1-2); Northern Ireland And England (pp. 2-3)

Algerian Campaign - Landing At Algiers (pp. 3-6), October 1942
Tunisian Campaign - Oran to Fondouk (pp. 6-9), November 1942: Landing At Oran (p. 6); Pichon - First Action Against The Germans (pp. 6-7); Defense Of The Sbiba Valley (pp. 7-8); El Ala - Pichon Diversion (p. 8); First Fondouk (pp. 8-9); Second Fondouk (p. 9)
Tunisian Campaign - Hill 609 (pp. 9-12), April 1943

Italy And The Crossings Of The Volturno (pp. 12-17), September 1943
Montaquilla And Mount Pantano (pp. 17-19), November 1943
Cassino (pp. 19-24), January 1944
Anzio and Rome Campaigns (pp.24-28), March 1944: Anzio Beachhead (pp. 24-25); Rome (pp. 25-28)
Up The Coast To Leghorn (pp. 28-31), June 1944
The Gothic Line (pp. 31-33), September 1944

Awards (pp. 33-34)

Note: What is an "edited transcription?

Let me answer the 'transcription' part first with my usual disclaimer: The document as presented here is - within the limits of my vision, alertness, and spell checker - a fair rendering of the original; but it is not a "true copy". 'Legal' it is not; 'Useful' it should be.

'Edited' excuses my attempts to set a standard of style for what appears in the web-based historical records I'm preparing: matters of punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and of formats for dates, times, numbers, and unit designations. The style guide is evolving, and the press of time to place something online means that - even then - the guide is sometimes not quite adhered to.

Beyond that, there are cases where I've chosen to add or 'tune' what is presented: changing or questioning a word, expanding acronyms or identifying parent units, adding a bit of information I thought helpful. All of these are shown [thus] in 'square brackets'.

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