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JUSTAutomobile Floor Mat* — Aluminum Prewiure Cooker*Electric Hot Plate* — All Metal Scooter* Coleman Ganoline Lantern* — Garden Rake* Hoe* and Shovel*—Small Metal Tool Boxe*^ All Aluminum Kitchen 8toolan v r.nnnoiruCentralia Evening Sentinel Monday, Jan. 14, 1046 5-*4«* aavr,p7th ARMY IN AL«ACCAi* dava altar bamg cnmmlttad to it# first battla, tha 44th Infantry Division *»» aant rasling by *Harman rountarattack In tht Vosga* Mountain sactor, and it* front Una* war* ptaread. Rallymg tha 44th fought bark *ava«a ly, mrndad It* shattarad tin**, and nautraltsad tha *n*my blowWith tht* coatly l**»on in mod-arn w-arfsr* dlgaatad, tha 44th ba-gan a clow advanc* through Al-aara-Lorraina On Nov. 2A, a bat talion of tha 44th aarnad a citation fcr aipacially diatinfui»had arfion by a braakthroufh in tha **ctor north of Schalbark. rranr* Oan-aril Patch latar cradlttd thi* ao*oughly battla-wis* and it had ha-gun it* onslaught against tha Mag-tnot Lina. Again tha 44th bora tha hrunt of tha #namy attack. But tha division had laarnsd its lasaen wall—in turning bade soma 20 datarminad countarblowa I n forra, tha 44th arcountad for *000 anamy raaualtla*.Prom hara on, tha 44th enjoyed romparativaly rlaar sailing Itronaolidatad it* poaitiona bslow tha*a*r during January, and 1*March w»i raliavad aftar 144 dayaof combat,Raturning to batUa, tha 44th roll-ad daap into Europe, ero**in« tha Rhina, rapturing Mannhtlm and *ma*hing into tha Auatrian Tyrol. On V E Day, tha 44th *« firmlyantrinrhad at Im*t. Austria, andon that day tha division mada con-tart with tha rifth Army comingup from Italy,- I
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Centralia Evening Sentinel

Centralia, Illinois, US

Mon, Jan 14, 1946

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