With the end of fighting in Europe, the Rangers assembled in Ried, Austria.  What next? They would have to wait and see.  What were the possibilities?  The Battalion could be used for occupation, sent to the United States to be disbanded or rebuilt and retrained, or sent to the Pacific Theater to continue the fight against the Japs.  What did the Rangers want?  To stay together as a Ranger Battalion, no matter what themission or assignment, -- to be able to return to the United States as a unit, -- the glorious Fifth Ranger Battalion.

What actually took place cannot be told, for this Historic Account of the Fifth Rangers was written in Reid, Austria, and this date, -- 6 June 1945, we are still waiting, wondering and hoping.

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