350^th Infantry Regiment

The 350th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, on July 15, 1942, and trained with the 88th Infantry Division before departing Hampton Roads on December 3, 1943. It landed in North Africa on December 20, arrived in Italy on February 12, 1944, and entered combat after the division took over the Garigliano sector near Minturno.

On May 11, 1944, the 350th attacked as part of the opening drive toward Rome. Its early objectives included Ventosa, Hill 316, and Monte Damiano, followed by Monte Rotondo and Monte Cerri, while the 351st fought for Santa Maria Infante. After the Ausente valley positions began to give way, the regiment pushed toward Spigno and then, on May 20, marched deep into German-held ground to seize Monte Alto. On May 26 it advanced from Rocca Secca across the Amaseno Valley. In Rome the division's task forces, based on 1st Battalions of the 350th and 351st, drove through the city and seized Tiber bridges.

The regiment became the division's left element in the July Volterra attack and captured the walled town, then pressed toward Laiatico. During the Gothic Line campaign it moved rapidly along the Santerno valley, took Monte Acuto and Monte del Puntale, and sent its 2nd Battalion onto Monte Battaglia on September 27. The position, exposed on three sides and supplied by a narrow trail, became a prolonged defensive battle against repeated counterattacks until British troops relieved the regiment in early October. The 350th later fought at Monte delle Tombe and helped widen the Monte Grande salient by taking Montecuccoli and Farneto. In April 1945 it cleared Monte Mario during the Bologna offensive, then joined the pursuit across the Po, through Verona and Vicenza, and toward the Alps as organized German resistance ended.