Work Horse of the Western Front

More than 60 American divisions participated in the defeat of Germany in 1944-45. This is the story of one of the best of them, a division that fought continually from the Normandy beachhead to the banks of the Elbe River in the heart of Germany. The measure of a great fighting unit is not that it never runs into difficulties but that it minimizes its errors and gains by experience. By these standards, Old Hickory was a great division—as is evidenced by the caliber of the tasks it was called upon to perform.