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NEW Defense Platoon, TRUST Headquarters;
a counterpoint to Last Retreat at Miramare (TRUST)
NEW 135th Infantry Regiment History, 1941-1945, from Col. John Breit, CO 1945
NEW Col. Virgil R. Miller, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, by Joy Teraoka (PDF)
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34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division Spin-Off

Most of the material relative to this Division is found on its own Association website, but key pages which speak to common or similar situations in other units will remain linked to the Military History Network, and are identified "(external)"

General Information

At The Top Of The Stack ...
'Shorts and Overs'
Associations' News
Veteran's Records and Awards Requests
Recommended Books
Interesting Links
The Webmaster's Library
"Battle Rattle", by Chaplain (Col.) Wallace M Hale

Mediterranean Theater of Operations (General)

Select from this list: Congressional Medals of Honor • MTO WWII Victoria Crosses • MTO WWII Military Encyclopedia • Italian Campaign, 1943-1945 Col. Virgil R. Miller, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, by Joy Teraoka (PDF) 1/9 Gurkha Rifles • Monte Cassino "No Rear ... Anzio Was Unique", by Bill Mauldin "D-Day Dodgers" Task Force 45 Winston Churchill • August 1944 Patrol Operations under Winter Conditions "Pluvius" • Dec '44 "Sullivan's Grocery" • December 1944 "Battle of the Roads" • December 1944 SS Surrender in Milan • April 1945 752nd Tank Battalion • Distinguished Unit Citation Italy • Trouble Spot • May 1945 Fifth Army History • Race to the Alps 1945 Trieste and Austrian Crises UN Reports • Free Territory of Trieste 135th Infantry Regiment History, 1941-1945. from Col. John Breit, CO 1945 MilHist.Net • MTO External Links

Global Insights and Thoughts - Other Times and Places

Select from this list: Fort Slocum NY, 1861-1965, the birth and death of an Army Post "Two-Thousand-Yard Stare" • Tom Lea "The Message" • by Isaac Asimov "Ginger McGovern", by Cormac MacConnell "Dead Men Walking" • by Cormac MacConnell "Back from Abu Ghraib" • by Major Tony Dingmann "Puptent Poets" • from Stars and Stripes Korea, 1951 • Ridgeway: "Why We Are Here" "Forgotten Fronts" • Nov 1944 Germans Salvage Hurricane Timber Hospital Trains Carry Wounded Veterans "The Soldier" On Evaluating Awards, by Victor Madeja Germany Remembers the Berlin Airlift • 1989 1st Irish Guards • Armistice 1918 RADM Grace Murray Hopper The Maytag Age • April 2003 Initial Medical Force • Operation Joint Endeavor A Small Selection of Poetry • Favorites Military Wisdom Soldiers: Fighting Man's Life, 1901-2001 Churchill • A Biography

Orders of Battle

Select from this list: Order of Battle Index (listing of detailed OrdBat files) Italian Campaign • Major Allied Units (not updated) Order of Battle • U.S. Divisions (with added details)

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Contents Organized by Major Units

Allied Military Government

Select from this list: Military Encyclopedia, Chapter 14, Allied Military Government (PDF file) What Happened in Trieste ... Col. Bowman Goes Home ... Settling the Question of Trieste [Intelligence Review] Harry Truman on Trieste Allied Military Government • Venezia Giulia 1945 Trieste and Austrian Crises UN Reports • Free Territory of Trieste Allied Military Government

US Army Air Force

Select from this list: Mediterranean, 1942-1945 Chronology

British Element, Trieste Forces (BETFOR)
Trieste United States Troops (TRUST)

Select from this list: UN Reports • Free Territory of Trieste The BETFOR Association website Establishment of TRUST • General Order Number 1 Defense Platoon, TRUST Headquarters Last Retreat at Miramare (TRUST) TRUST Mission Accomplished

1st Military Railway Service

Select from this list: 1st Military Railway Service

1st [Canadian-American] Special Service Force

Select from this list: Rome Fell Today • (June 4, 1944)

1/9 Gurkha Rifles

Select from this list: Monte Cassino

2nd New Zealand Division

Select from this list: "One More River"

34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division

Select from this list: Congressional Medals of Honor • 34th Inf Div 135th Infantry Regiment History, 1941-1945. from Col. John Breit, CO 1945 88th Relieves 34th • 3 Oct 1945 Commanding Generals Greet 34th, 88th 34th Infantry Division Association website (external) 34th Infantry Division • WWII Death Casualties (external) Lessons Learned in Combat (external) Short-Comings ... Battalion and Regimental S-2 Personnel (external)

Task Force 45

Select from this list: Task Force 45
88th "Blue Devil" Infantry Division
The 88th Infantry Division Association website is not listed here.
It has supposedly been 'under construction' since 2002.

Select from this list: 313th Engineer Combat Battalion • History 913th Field Artillery Battalion • Narrative History Rome Fell Today • (June 4, 1944) "Italy Through The Hole Of A Doughnut" • by Fannye Beaty 88th Infantry Division • POW Command German Priests • MTO POW Command POW Command • Clearing Hospitals 88th Gets Trieste Mission • September '45 Commanding Generals Greet 34th, 88th 34th Relieved by 88th • 3 Oct. 45 Eisenhower Visit • October '46 US 88th Infantry Division Troops Enter Switzerland 88th Infantry Division • Occupation Duty Ends 88th Infantry Division • Battle Honors "Battle Rattle", by Chaplain (Col. Ret.) Wallace M Hale

100th Infantry Battalion (Nisei)
442nd Regimental Combat Team (Nisei)

Select from this list: Col. Virgil R. Miller, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, by Joy Teraoka (PDF)

752nd Tank Battalion

Select from this list: Distinguished Unit Citation

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Contents Organized by Campaign and Date

Algeria - French Morocco • 1942 Nov 8 - 1942 Nov 11

Select from this list: 109th Medical Battalion • North Africa (external)

Tunisia • 1942 Nov 13 - 1943 May 13

Select from this list: 109th Medical Battalion • North Africa (external) Fondouk Pass • Commendation and Background (external) Short-Comings ... Battalion and Regimental S-2 Personnel (external)

Sicily • 1943 Jul 9 - 1943 Aug 17

No entries as yet.

Naples - Foggia • 1943 Sep 9 - 1944 Jan 21

Select from this list: 1/9 Gurkha Rifles • Monte Cassino

Anzio • 1944 Jan 22 - 1944 May 24

Select from this list: "No Rear ... Anzio Was Unique", by Bill Mauldin

Rome - Arno • 1944 Jan 22 - 1944 Sep 8

Select from this list: Rome Fell Today • (June 4, 1944) Italy Through the Hole of a Doughnut Task Force 45

North Apennines • 1944 Sep 10 - 1945 Apr 4

Select from this list: Forgotten Fronts • Nov 1944 "Pluvius" • Dec '44 "Sullivan's Grocery" • Dec 1944 "Battle of the Roads" • Dec 1944 Another Night at the Front • Christmas Eve 1944 (external) Iron-Man Battalion (1/133) (external)

Po Valley • 1945 Apr 5 - 1945 May 9

Select from this list: SS Surrender in Milan • Apr 1945 War Ends • Germans Surrender in Italy (external) Italy • Trouble Spot • May 1945 One More River • 2nd New Zealand Division 752nd Tank Battalion • Distinguished Unit Citation Allied Military Government • 1945-1947 1945 Trieste and Austrian Crises

Occupation • 1945 May 9 - 1947 Sep 15

Select from this list: Italy • Trouble Spot • May 1945 POW Command • Summer 1945 POW Command • German Priests POW Command • Clearing Hospitals Allied Military Government • 1945-1947 88th Gets Trieste Mission • Sep 1945 88th Relieves 34th • Oct 1945 Commanding Generals Greet 34th, 88th Eisenhower Visit • Oct 1946 US 88th Infantry Division Troops Enter Switzerland Occupation Duty Ends • Incident at OP 5 Harry Truman on Trieste Settling the Question of Trieste (Intelligence Review) Allied Military Government • Venezia Giulia 1945 Trieste and Austrian Crises

Free Territory of Trieste • 1947 Sep 16 - 1954 Oct 6

Select from this list: Settling the Question of Trieste (Intelligence Review) Establishment of TRUST • General Order Number 1 UN Reports • Free Territory of Trieste Defense Platoon, TRUST Headquarters Last Retreat at Miramare (TRUST) TRUST Mission Accomplished The BETFOR Association

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