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Show LOCAL MAN'S REGIMENT TAKES S.000-FOOT PEAK IN ITALY With The Fifth Army, Italy Pvt. Afton F. Grant, whose wife, Lolene Taylor Grant, lives in Cedar City, is a member of the 337th Wolverine" Regiment which recently recent-ly took 3000-foot Mount Pratone in the Gothic Line, digging German soldiers out of elaborate concrete pillboxes and earthworks on its frosted slopes. The 337th Infantry Regiment Is in the 8jUi 'Custer"Divlsion. part of the Fifth Army in Italy. Its first was its toughest battle. The regiment won all its objectives Then it, st.rurk nut foi Tremensuol In the Gustav Line last May 12, but In this battle lost a quarter of all the casualties It has suffered In seven months of warfare In Italy. At this time, one company captured cap-tured a hill and held .It against desperate German counter attacks for three days and nights, its num-erical num-erical strength dwindling in this period to 18. |