The American Traveler SPECIAL-EDITION PUBLISHED DAILY BY 1st U. S. INFANTRY-DIVISION June 6, 1945. Top Honor to First Infantry New York, May 14 (AP) -- Hal Boyle Associated Press war correspondent and Pulitzer prize winner, in a Paris broadcast today paid tribute to the fighting First Infantry and other divisions he has seen in xxxx. "All I can remember with any feeling or pride in this whole sorry business of war is the courage and fortitude of the men who fought it," he said. I don't think the nation will ever forget the First, the Second, and the Third Armored Divisions, nor the First, the Second, Third, Fifth, the Ninth, 34th, 36th and 45th Infantry Divisions, nor the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions. There is a real roll call of honor from Casablanca to Bastogne to Prague. But of them all, I think the best symbol of the American army overseas is the fighting First Infantry Division. They have fought their way more miles against more Germans than any other unit in the American army. They left their dead by the hundreds in Tunisia, Sicily, France, Belgium, and Germany. And when the final surrender came they were still killing Nazis. Their battle achievements dwarf their losses. But you can't forget these soldiers who died. We can reconvert our war factories for peace -- that will be easy, but how can we ever reward these lost magnificent men?"
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