My grandpa served in WWII and like many it was generally impossible to get details out of him. Below is one of the few things he said about it. Would it be possible to determine what regiment he served in based on this description?
"I was drafted into the army. I spent four months in Georgia taking basic training in the middle of summer. I came home [to Wisconsin] for a couple of weeks and I went to Fort Mead, Maryland and then shipped out from Fort Mead, Maryland and I was sick seventeen days going across the ocean. Three weeks later we landed in Liverpool to South Hampton and then to France. I went right up to the front lines. I was a PFC in the infantry andI walked all the way across France and Germany and I ended up in Munich.
I was in a fox hole for 45 days and then we started moving after it had 45th Division. They had been all the way down to Italy. I came home on delay en route and Norm Bone was home after 3 years being there. I listened to him talk. And when I got over there. Here he came, in the same outfit.
I didn’t have enough points to get out and went to Texas. The 45th was disbanded in Texas and I was transferred to the 2nd Division and we went to San Francisco for an Army Day parade. Then we went to Ft. Lewis Washington and I was taking jungle training up there when I got enough points to be discharged.
Pretty much in Germany and France."
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