This is the story of the first infantry division, the red one fighting the war grew from dday, north africa to ve day, germany. All combat pilot is now for occupation duty. Ludlow eight campaign and three amphibious landing. But youre not the far back at the revolution. To preserve the union in the civil war or in combat in world war one, when all units were combined into a regular army division. Regiment 41, they came from world walks of life, a new generation of recruits. Boy, do i remember them first. Guys who we learned quickly enough that from that rugged training we got here in over three still, when we left england in 42, we felt pretty good at a swell peak. Barry allen a frightening general. We like him and he liked that. So the outfit relaxed at the front. Hill on a chilly november dawn and the north africa out there in the dark. We knew action was for everyone in the wait. I dont know which was cold or water or the feeling in my stomach when they opened up on. In three days the rain was odd. Need three. We thought we knew what war with like. But jerry thought its different when. We die from it. Thanks those early. 88 going, we got our work their way through. Flunked out of the nazarene but we learned that war started to teach. Jerry a few things that ann arbor. We ran way back to and ronald wrote it all gets up when we throw up it back then plan to the in then we fly not the mature. Or the nightmare war funny proud all about it. Drenching artillery, hidden mines, walls of machine gunfire. Meanwhile, montgomerys eight army cracked the merritt line. When we shook hands with his patrol patrols with over the crops of ram us army. Tunisia, the crazy rumor got around that we were going to load on boats for home. We loaded on boats. All right. But. But really which believe me, with no place like home. This time, the beachhead was plenty rough. But after we broke through, the red one moved back from 18 pounds in 37 day. But. To take it, we had a trouble like it out in the mountains all along the way. Like florida, pretty much on the ground. Roughly 21. Yeah, 21. Jerry counterattack. It looked like this. We won. All right, but we made. After friday, they ended back to rain. No big general hubler. But they jumped again. We practiced for another week, but this one we know was going to be the payoff. The biggest show of all. To go one up on june six, 1944. You know, i never think of omaha, the big town in nebraska. Not anymore. They made the piece of beach in normandy with we were getting some artillery, mortar, machine gun fire like rain without even an umbrella for protection. Retail came close to being rained out. All right. But when colonel petrova yelled, get the hell off the beach, we got the help and ran smack in the hedgerow country where a set up a field like fort using the head road for world. Like a chinese lot to help clean up one field only to find out the next was loaded with gear. And to keep it all the time. But covered 88 already. The guys didnt during a week time. We just shot the crowd our way to come. When we waited for the other outfit to come up on our flanks. The friends with thick already, the women getting led by plain american dopey who were a human being who we got a chance to clean up back home. How we would do it. It had to be a short not so in a big blow up with my mind your life on it. But when i came both of them had got in our big passed around. And the infantry. Pulled it off gray went to the town. The fourth and ninth divisions opened up a nice big hole. And at first sorry, it threw. Patton running all over like pretty cold, lapping up the panicky crowd. But it was like, no for those. Did the cleaning up of combat engineers dug up mines like backstabbing like cleared away roadblocks. And all the time the infantry kept coming along for the final kill. It were lugging and lugging kill my a nap when you could eat why i be rations to and a lot of the thats what the schoolbooks call victorious but to eat that even when they put you on trucks. Yeah does it with a hell of a way to philadel pride but we showed up at ground from plant in a month. We drove out right away. We were across from the. Earthworks on where the red ones made jerry 26 years ago. We rolled across the belgian border, bagged 17,000, and in a three day wrap around, not and kept on up all the way to the third grade line. We cried every day, drove a train in the back yard around until. It looked like the final round was coming up. We did and preparing. That led decided to hold out or not wrap up the germans by making it a symbol of nazi gave them a slogan. Do you look like the honor of the National Socialist german army . He said. They a hard to house the house or we. But we had a slogan to mission too difficult, no sacrifice until great nobility very in a pay off. Our slogan had more money. We cleaned them out house by house, street by street. The whole on the 21st of october, often what was left of it surrendered. But we hadnt seen the worst yet. Had been showed us that. When it. Hurt can really bring down the outfit. But we cleaned out jerry then general landreth paid all this out for our first rest in six months. We couldnt believe it. Even when we got back to were there in belgium, we knew it was to get the rag. Now it didnt. It russia to work with one last gamble on the yard, then. And back in the line we went to our home, the northern shoulder of the boat with no sorry for the red. One mean whether jerry beaten it drained out, attacking. Us, counterattacking it. When we got going again after the fall we found the rhine river ahead of it looked like a big meadow to jump. But the ninth armored grabbed away broken bridge. It ran. Martin and we got over that. After that, we just threw away the break and kept rolling. Well, right through the barrier, german. And they told us in may the war was over. Do you know where we were . Czechoslovakia . Yeah, czechoslovakia. And rather well, we tired. You know, they call the infantry the queen of battle on. Ask me, why wouldnt those guys look pretty . Would you . Oh, im not ready. But they are real men. All do their job. But i. Want to