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Show - - "Old Hickory" Invasion Veteran Coming Home WITH THE 30TH INFANTRY DIVISION DI-VISION IN ASSEMBLY AREA COMMAND, COM-MAND, r-KANCE Pfc. Romulus D. Shields of Delta, Utah, en route from Europe with the "Old Hickory" (Division, which broke up tterm-1 I any's supreme counter-offensive in Normandy, is now being processed at Camp Oklahoma City, an infantry infan-try redeployment center operated ;by the Assembly Area Command. Prior to joining the 3(ith, Pfc. Shields fought in the ranks of the Kit li Infantry through the Siegfried Sieg-fried battles and across the Moselle ii support of General Patton's tank army. In February, the 7fith smashed enemy' fortifications on the Luxem-: Luxem-: bourg- German frontier, opening up 'the vital Trier-Bitburg highway to U. S. supplies and reinforcements. 'The division was in a reserve position po-sition during the Battle of the Bulge poised to strike in any direction direc-tion Rundsterit showed strength. The division streamed over the I Rhine in March and began a drive !into central Germany. Advancing 400 miles in three months, the 76th captured more than 75,000 prisoners prison-ers and reached Chemnitz in time for the historic link-up with the Russians. Pfc. Shields is the son of Rom Shields of Delta, Utah. |