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COMBAT EXPERIENCES
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Photo Album: 65th Infantry Division
The three men whose names are mentioned in the album are Hy Marinoff,
Harold Pinkston and George Misuriello. For the most part it's a series of photos, vaguely identified.
Give it a glance - maybe there's a picture of you? If so, let us know. We're sure
the author of the website, John Winwood, would appreciate your assistance.
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War Letters from Donald Gettings
These pages are "from a letter Donald Gettings wrote about his unit seeing a work
camp in Ohrdruf Germany. He was in the 65th Infantry Division, 260 Anti Tank Company as a squad
leader." This information was put online by Donald's son to commemorate his father's experience
with the 65th.
The 65th as a liberating force -
65TH DIVISION ASSOCIATION'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR OF EUROPE - SPRING 2005
BOOKS WRITTEN BY OR ABOUT 65TH VETERANS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES
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"Fragmentation: The Memories of the 3rd Platton of I Company 260th Regiment 65th Division" By Joe Windham
Joe "Windy" Windham's story, of his time spent as an infantry rifleman during 29 months in World War II. He writes of
discovering the true meaning of camaraderie, tolerance and equality, as well as the bond of brotherhood between the men of "I" Company, 260th Infantry.
Rated 5 Stars on Amazon.com
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"A Test of Faith and Courage: Patton's Raiders in WW II" By Oscar B. Ladner
His memoir as a WW II Combat Infantryman, Company G,
260th Infantry in Patton's Third Army
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"A Soldier's Promise" By Shirley Shipman Johnson & Houston R. Davis
From the website: "The book is based on true life events as told by Alvin
and Inez Shipman to their daughter, Shirley, before their deaths in 1979."
"Follow Sergeant Alvin W. Shipman during the fourteen months he was part of the final push into Nazi
Germany and the liberation of the Nazi death camp called Mauthausen. Find out about the 'promise'
Alvin Shipman makes to a prisoner inside Mauthausen, and how a small book produced inside the prison
was smuggled out to America (and is now reprinted here in A Soldier's Promise)."
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Anna Rosmus of Passau, Germany
Author of many publications and books.
Better known also as "The Nasty Girl" from the award winning film by the same name.
Ms. Rosmus has been interviewed twice by Morley Safer, in 1994 and again in 2000, for
"60 MINUTES" on CBS
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the American Immigration Law Foundation, has a page on their site honoring
Anna as one of the "Immigrants Who Have
Benefited America."
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"A New Renaissance"
An address by Honorable Alben Hopkins, Major General, U.S. Army,
to the members of the 65th Div. Assn. meeting on 30 Sept. 1999 at Imperial Palace Hotel, Biloxi, MS
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65th Infantry Division on military.com
A page where those affiliated with the 65th Infantry Division can connect.
