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Buggs, Leslie, T/4.
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Contact Info
Home Town Santa Fe
Last Address New Mexico Highway Patrol Santa e, New Mexico
Date of Passing Aug 21, 1946
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Enlisted 4-30-42.
He trained with 87th Mountain Battalion (ski troopers), which in 1942 was expanded to Regiment and trained at Fort Hale, Colorado, as part of the 10th Mountain Division.
On 29 Jukly 1943 the regiment made an amphibious assault on Japanese held Kiska Islands, Aleutian Chain, Alaska. By December 1943 the campaign had successfully cncluded and the regiment rejoined the 10th Division at Camp Hale for more ski and mountain training.
On 28 January1945 the Division became a part of the 5th Army, and fought thereafter in Italy.
After the war the division was on occupation duty until August 1945.
The division was deactivated at Camp Hale on 5 Novembe 1945, and T4 Bugg was honorably discharged.
Discharged Nov 6, 1945
After the war he became a motorycle officer for the New Mexico State Police and died in a motorcycle accident on Aug 21, 1946.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Po Valley Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
April / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Po Valley Campaign 5 April-8 May 1945) The effectiveness of interdiction in northern Italy was shown by the success of the final Allied drive in that area in April 1945. With communications shattered, the Germans were unable to move enough materiel to make a stand after being driven from their defensive positions south of the Po. Allied forces crossed the river on 25 April; and on 4 May, at the Italian end of the Brenner Pass, Fifth Army met the Seventh, which had driven into Germany and turned southward into Austria. With the joining of these forces the war in Italy was over.
