FLORIDA'S ARMY



 Philippine Islands. A number of them were killed in There, the 30th Division was part of an American force
 training. Others died helping fight their aircraft to stra- fighting the German II Parachute Corps and the Panzer
 tegic bombing targets. Lehr Division for control of that vital road center and
 In the ground war, Florida Guardsmen died in Sic- geographical gateway to the rest of France.
 ily and in the fighting in the rugged'mountains of cen- During the final year of the war, every major battle
 tral Italy. Eleven were killed or died of wounds in the or campaign in Europe or Asia claimed the life of one
 Anzio Beachhead, most while serving with the 3rd Di- or more of the former Florida Guardsmen. They died in
 vision. The assault on Normandy and the campaign in the airborne assaults on Belgium, Holland, Germany, in
 the hedgerow country which followed cost the lives of at the "Bulge," and in the final battles within Germany it-
 least 24 former Florida Guardsmen. One was killed self. More than a dozen were killed helping liberate the
 trying to clear mines from Omaha Beach on D-Day, Philippine Islands, including one Guardsman serving
 while another died during the airborne assault behind as a Marine aboard an American battleship.
 those same beaches. Most of the remaining casualties Of the nearly 4,000 Florida Guardsmen mobilized
 were incurred in the bitter fighting around St. Lo. for federal service between November 1940 and January






























 Soldiers of the 30th Infantry Diviion France A st 1944.








Soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division, France, August, 1944.