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Local SoldiersiWith Fifth ArmyIfOn Italian Front»\ Pvt Forest V McVickcr. Bedford, Pfc. James K Rawlings. Bedford. H 4, and Pfc Lee (i. Mowrv, i Fairhnpe R 1. are county soldiersfighting with the 363rd. Infantry ^ Regiment 111 thr current Florence-^ Bologna of fen.11\ e in Hiily.I’v I McVicker and Pfc. Rawlings arc innchinc Runners mid Pfc. Mo wry is a rifleman with the regi-I irit iii, port (if the Hist Powder River Division with Lt. Gencrol \ Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. f The 363rd ( nterrd ecmbat in Italy last duly 4 north of the Cecina i River on the i ight flank of the .'14th ( Tied Bull Division, to which it wys then attached.The regiment rejoined the Dlst Infantry Division south of Chiunni. P where it experienced one of its, 'roughest battles, A battalion of the|. .'103rd captured Hill 034. four miles| southwest of Chianni. and repelleda number of savage enemy counterattacks in hand-to-hand fighting. k The rockiness of the hill made it p impossible for the doughboys to dig in sufficiently to withstand a.*fI highly concentrated artillery and * mortar assault that followed, but. after withdrawing slightly, the out- fit returned and retook the hillI During the night of July 17 the 363rd, as the infantry element of a task force attached to the 34th Divi-c sion. moved into position southeast f of Leghorn. The next morning the i 363rd shifted its strength to theI\ ; northeast corner of the seaport.1 maneuvering with support of tanks and tank destroyers. That night j one of the infantry regiment's battalions fought its way through the northern districts of the city itself to be the first American troops toI enter the city. (The 363rd next broke across the S canal north of Leghorn and occu-* pied the coastal sector from the* port city to Pisa, one of its battat-^ ions entering the city before dawn, July 24 and another one reaching » the city of the Leaning Tower that night. The 363rd returned to the control of the Plst Division after » holding that part of Pisa south of* the Arno for four days. The regiment was on Fifth Army's right flank, fighting as a unit of tl^ Plst Division, when it went inI action again.Colonel W. Fulton Magill, Jr.. of jt Portland. Oregon has commanded ■ the 363rd since uist February%
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Bedford Gazette
Bedford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1944
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