THIRTY-SIXTH DIVISION ASSOCIATION. The Thirty-sixth Division Association was founded in January 1946 at a meeting in Brownwood of veterans who served with the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division^qv during World War II.^qv Among the association's founders were H. Miller Ainsworth (first president), William H. Martin, Carl L. Phinney, Richard B. Dunbar, and the division's wartime commander, Gen. Fred L. Walker.^qv The association holds annual reunions in order to perpetuate the comradeship engendered by their common service. It sponsored the publication of A Pictorial History of the 36th "Texas" Infantry Division in the late 1940s. After September 1947 membership in the association was open to anyone assigned to the division in World War I^qv or II. On Veterans Day, 1959, on the Capitol^qv grounds in Austin, an eleven-foot granite monument was dedicated by the association to the members of the Thirty-sixth Division who were killed in both world wars. Another monument stands near the Salerno site where the Thirty-sixth Division led the allied invasion into Italy in 1943. In May 1972 the Thirty-sixth Division Association sponsored a return trip to Salerno for its members. The T-Patcher, the official newsletter, is published quarterly.

James I. Eddins