Wow T.A. Gardner, you are AWESOME! I'll buy you a huge gift basket if I ever meet you lol. That is awesome.

Why would he not have gotten his Combat Inf Badge during basic training? Why did he receive his when he was already in combat?

According to
U.S. Army Divisions of World War II: 85th Infantry Division, Casualties, Generals, Battles & Campaigns
it says the 85th was sent to Casablanca on 2 Jan 44 but my grandfathers discharge papers say he was sent over seas on 25 Apr 44. I'm not sure how troop shipments worked, could you explain that to me? Maybe they did it by regiment?

On that website it says North Apennines and Po Valley campaigns, why aren't these listed on his discharge papers?

My mom told me that he saw the atrocities that happened in a concentration camp, from what I read the 85th didn't liberate or help liberate a concetration camp (U.S. Army units) could she be mistaken or maybe the 85th ventured into a concentration camp after its liberation?

One more thing, the 338th Regiment was trained at Camp Shelby, MS, not Ft. Dix, NJ, how did that work (I noticed 328th Field Artillery was trained a Ft. Dix though, they were a part of the 85th)? Is there a list of regiments trained at Ft. Dix somewhere? I can't find any. The only thing I found linking any other part of the 85th to Ft. Dix was that the 337th Infantry left Camp Shelby and came to Ft. Dix to prepare for there departure to the Mediterranean.

Thank you so much again though for at least deciphering the 85th division