I dedicate these pages to the memory of my Dad,
Bill Heller (1910-1972),
and the brave men and women,
who sacrificed so much for our freedom. 

It is with pride that the men of the 3rd Infantry Division point to their record of combat, of campaigns, of landings, and of victories. The route from Casablanca to Berchtesgaden is strewn with the wreckage of the shattered Wehrmacht. Never did the 3rd Infantry Division falter, or fall back in its thirty months of combat. All of this is indeed glorious, and in Army language can be said  to be, "...in keeping with the highest traditions of the service."*
* From 'The History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II' ©1947,1999 Battery Press