Front Line Publishes Special Edition

3rd Division souvenir paper tells history of the division

My Mother and Audie Murphy Ch. 100

Don’t throw this away! admonishes the Front Line newspaper of their post-war special edition. Flo didn’t throw it away. She saved it and tucked it into her album. The issue consists entirely of stories which appeared in the big and little dailies of the nation about the Third Division.

From the introduction: “During the rush of battle few men were able to get a hold of a newspaper published in the states, much less take time to read it thoroughly….Hence, this special edition. 

“We hope you hang on to your copy as the supply is limited to one per man. If you want to send it home, go ahead. All the material in it was censored by Sixth Army Group censors before it could appear in the home town papers.”

The Front Line is the official newspaper of the Third Infantry Division. In the interest of archiving, I’m posting the whole six-page paper. You can read it by pinching out the image.

Ch. 101: https://mollymartin.blog/2026/03/07/a-sweet-love-poem-to-a-flyer/

FrontLine News Reaches the Front Lines

St. Dié-des-Vosges Captured

My Mother and Audie Murphy Ch. 52

The only photo on this page, of the shelled St. Die, was presumably taken by Flo. There is also a copy of the Third Division FrontLine newspaper which tells the story of a soldier from Seattle who killed several Nazis in hand-to-hand combat. Probably Oscar Amundson was someone she knew from her home state of Washington.

Photo: Dogface Soldier Collection

The FrontLine newspaper was started in World War II. Published weekly, it is still the official periodical for the Third Infantry Division.

Ch. 53: https://mollymartin.blog/2025/09/07/bloody-battle-at-colmar-pocket/