65TH INFANTRY DIVISION'S "RIGHT TO BE PROUD"

• First Division to disembark in France - Le Havre, January 21, 1945.
  
  
• "Spearhead Division" for General Patton's Third Army in Germany.
  
  
• Traveled further and faster than any other Division in ETO - 583 Miles.
  
  
• Closest American Troops to Berlin on Easter Sunday, 1945.
  
  
• In the march to Regensburg, at Neumarkt, formed the Southern flank for the entire Third Army.
  
  
• First Third Army unit to cross the Danube River.
  
  
• First American Army Unit to Capture an Enemy Fleet
  - 36 German & 31 Hungarian Vessels surrendered at Linz, Austria on the Danube.
  
  
• Greater East European penetration reached than any other American Division - Erlauf, Austria
  - 45 miles East of Linz and 55 miles West of Vienna (as listed in Ripley's Believe It or Not).
  
  
• Last Division activated and first Division to be deactivated in WWII.
  Activated July 1, 1943. Deactivated August 31, 1945.
  
  
  

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