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S. Sgt. Jack Brumfield, com munications chief, of Ury, and Pvt. Lawrence E. Perry, of Oak Hill, half track driver, are members of the 81st mechanized cavalry re connaissance squadron now probd ing German defenses before Italy's Po valley as it nears the end of its third year overseas. The 81st has been stationed in Great Britain, spearhead opera tions in Northern Algeria and Tu nisia, and since joining the Fifth army before Cassino, has been in the vanguard of Allied troops in the Italian campaign The reconnaissance men took part in the Anzio beachhead action and in the final assault on Rome, brought in 200 prisoners and ac counted for a large number of German dead. In one engagement in southern Tunisia, the 81st troop took 85 prisoners and killed many prisoners without losing a man.
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Mar 11, 1945
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