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	42nd Infantry Division History
		Colonel Douglas MacArthur, who was instrumental in forming the division as Chief of Staff and one of its early commanders in World War One said shortly after mobilization, "The 42nd Division stretches like a Rainbow from one end of America to the other." Reporters liked the reference and the division nickname was born.
		The 42nd Division returned to its roots as a truly diversified division in 1993 when it consolidated with elements of the 26th and 50th divisions to form one National Guard Division.
		The division participated in the northeastern states’ disaster response for blizzards and floods in 1996, fires in 1997, the devastating ice storm and New York’s tornado recovery in 1998, and the Y2K contingency and snowstorm and hurricane responses in 1999 and 2000.
	www.42id.army.mil /history/index.html (803 words)

	42nd Infantry Division -- A Short History
		The 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division was formed from the National Guard units of 26 states and the District of Columbia and activated in August 1917.
		The 42nd Division was the first in its corps to enter Germany, the first to penetrate the Siegfried line and the first into Munich.
		In addition, soldiers from the 42nd Division were among the first to be activated and deployed in New York City after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
	www.geocities.com /armored50th/42ndID.html (668 words)

	42nd Virginia
		During the next several weeks, the 42nd was involved in frequent skirmishes up and down the Valley against the army of Phil Sheridan, culminating in the retreat of the Confederate Second Corps at Opequon Creek on September 19 and the rout of Early’s entire army at Fisher’s Hill on the 22nd.
		The 42nd remained entrenched and inactive at Burgess’ Mill for the remainder of 1864 and January 1865.
		The condition of the 42nd being representative of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee surrendered on April 9.
	www.42ndvacok.org (1766 words)

	New York Army National Guard 42nd Infantry Division Historical Info
		The 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division's history as a unit began with America's entry into World War I. Amidst the rush by America to mobilize, individual states competed with each other for the honor to be the first to send their National Guard units to fight in the trenches of Europe.
		It was during the 42nd Division's rapid advance through Germany in April 1945 that they, along with the Guard's 45th Infantry Division, liberated the infamous Dachau concentration camp.
		The Division ended the war serving as occupation forces in Austria and was inactivated in June 1946.
	www.dmna.state.ny.us /arng/42div/history42.html (708 words)

	Douglas MacArthur Collection
		The 42nd arrived in Europe in 1917 as the war was entering a new phase: Russia had dropped out of the war, America was joining the war, and Germany was racing to provide tremendous reinforcement before the American forces arrived.
		In September, the Rainbow Division, then under the 4th American Army Corps, was ordered to attack the center of the south side of the San Mihiel Salient and was assigned to the defense of the Essey-Pannes Sector until September 30, when it was relieved by the 89th Division.
		The 42nd Division backed off and was able to claim that the Americans who got closest to Sedan were members of the 166th Infantry of the 83rd Infantry Brigade.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/M/MacArthur.html (1560 words)

	U.S. 42nd Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 42nd Infantry Division adopted a shoulder patch acknowledging the nickname.
		On the 25th, the 42nd captured Donauwörth on the Danube, and on the 29th liberated some 30,000 inmates at Dachau; one of the most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps.
		The Division absorbed the units of the 26th Infantry Division and the 50th Armored Division in post Cold War restructuring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._42nd_Infantry_Division (790 words)

	42 Bde History
		The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division fought in Egypt, the Dardanelles, France and Belgium, while the 55th (West Lancashire) Division operated exclusively in France and Belgium, where it established a reputation of being one of the elite divisions.
		Again the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division was one of the first TA Divisions to deploy and in 1940 formed part of the BEF in France.
		In 1947, the 42nd and 55th Divisions were amalgamated to form the 42nd (Lancashire) Division composed of the 125th, 126th and 127th Infantry Brigades.
	www.army.mod.uk /42bde/history.htm (929 words)

	42nd Infantry Division Tackles New Enemy Rainbow Leaders Deploy for Combat Simulation Training
		The Rainbow Division is a multi-state National Guard Division that includes troops from New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Illinois.
		"The hallmark of this division is the element of teamwork that we bring to the fight," Garrett said.
		Every staff section in the division is stressed to conduct planning and coordination to support an actual deployment of more than 15,000 soldiers to combat.
	www.first.army.mil /pao/2002_Articles/42nd_tackles_rainbow.htm (898 words)

	Rainbow Division Memorial Foundation, Inc. - Home Page
		The 42nd "Rainbow"Division Veterans "Association" merged with the RDV "Memorial Foundation, Inc." at 9 P.M. July 19, 2003 at the Annual Reunion in St. Louis.
		The World War II Rainbow Division was activated on July 14, 1943, with the new Rainbow soldiers distributed throughout the Division proportionate to the population of the states at that time.
		The rest of the Division arrived in France in January and the Division was at last intact.
	www.rainbowvets.org (701 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Rainbow Division
		The 'Rainbow Division' was the nickname given to the U.S. 42nd Division.
		One of the first American divisions to reach the battlefields of the Western Front in November 1917, the Rainbow Division first saw action fighting alongside the French in February 1918.
		With the armistice the Rainbow Division was assigned German occupation duties.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/rainbowdivision.htm (211 words)

	42nd Infantry Division Patch (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Division stretches like a Rainbow from one end of America to the other." The comment caught the interest of those present and they decided to call it the "Rainbow Division".
		Background: The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally authorized by telegram on 29 Oct 1918 for the 42d Division.
		On 8 Sept 1947 it was authorized for the 42d Infantry Division.
	www.42id.army.mil.cob-web.org:8888 /history/patch.html (366 words)

	Rainbow Division and Task Force Liberty Move Out
		Division Soldiers will provide the command and control, logistics and operational base for combat brigades to succeed in their mission in Iraq.
		The division's Advance Party deployed in early November and elements of Task Force Liberty deployed to Kuwait throughout November and December.
		As forward elements of the 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters established forward command posts in Kuwait to control the deployment of thousands of Soldiers into theater, the remaining headquarters Soldiers focused on conducting post-validation training to better prepare our Soldiers not immediately deploying to do their mission, said Maj. Gen.
	www.first.army.mil /pao/2005_Articles/Rainbow_Division_TF_Move_Out.htm (1227 words)

	www.ny.gov - GOVERNOR ADDRESSES IRAQ-BOUND "RAINBOW DIVISION" SOLDIERS
		The 42nd Infantry Division (ID), headquartered in Troy, is the National Guard's multi-state infantry division spanning 10 states.
		The Division is commanded by Major General Joseph Taluto of Fort Anne, New York --- the first New Yorker to command the Division in a decade.
		New York 42nd soldiers were among the first to respond to the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001 and the 42nd's Headquarters was charged with command and control over all National Guard state militia support to the City of New York in the weeks that followed.
	www.ny.gov /governor/press/04/oct8_1_04.htm (375 words)

	British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The division fought at Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western Front in France.
		The division was sent to Egypt in September 1914 to protect the Suez Canal from Turkish attack.
		The entire division was involved in the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_42nd_(East_Lancashire)_Division (385 words)

	42nd Infantry Division (Mechanized) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1993 the 42nd Division was consolidated with elements of the 26th and 50th Divisions to form one National Guard division.
		The Rainbow Division's history as a unit began with America's entry into World War I, when individual states competed with each other for the honor to be the first to send their National Guard units to Europe.
		The 42d Division was not organized as a National Guard division after World War I. The Rainbow division was redeployed to the United States by March of 1919 and individual units returned to their home state.
	www.globalsecurity.org.cob-web.org:8888 /military/agency/army/42id.htm (1492 words)

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		At the conclusion of the war, the 1st Infantry Division relieved the 42nd Infantry Division...
		The milestone event took place at Saddam Hussein’s former palace here, and the 1st ID relinquished authority to the 42nd ID for the area of operations in north central Iraq, which is about the size of West Virginia.
		The commanding general of the 42nd said he hopes to reduce by half the number of tasks being performed by U.S. troops during the year ahead by turning over jobs to Iraqi security forces wherever possible, as soon as possible.
	www.armytimes.com /print.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-658763.php (689 words)

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		He has agreed to forward any information he has about members of the Division who were from the Greenfield area.
		I remember as a child that Division members held an annual reunion in Greenfield with many of them staying at the Elliott Hotel.
		On 20 Aug 17, the division began concentrating at Camp Mills, NY.
	www.highland-ohio.com /rainbow_division.htm (626 words)

	Army Corps
		The Division's final objective, a junction with 5th Army troops near the Brenner pass, was accomplished in the morning of May 4 when an advance party of the 103rd met a patrol of the 88th Infantry Division (5th US Army) near Colle Isarco in South Tyrol (south of the Brenner Pass).
		On June 12, the Division was relieved of all the area which it occupied in Germany in a move designed to reconcile unit boundaries with political boundaries to simplify military government problems.
		The 103rd Infantry Division occupied the western section of Tyrol and the 101st Airborne Division occupied Land Salzburg to the east.
	www.usfava.com /USFA_ArmyCorps.htm (4593 words)

	The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914-1918
		On outbreak of war, the units of the Division were recalled from summer camp and billeted near to its headquarters.
		The Division was warned on 5 September 1914 that it would be sent to Egypt, and four days later it began to embark at Southampton, the first transports sailing on 10 September.
		The Division was involved in three notable attempts to break out of the Helles bridgehead to capture the dominating heights around the village of Krithia.
	www.1914-1918.net /42div.htm (1705 words)

	The Saurus Press - 42nd Rainbow Division Meurcy Farm Battle of the Ourcq River Plaque Dedication
		By the evening of August 1 the 42d and 32d Divisions were in secure possession of a large portion of the high ground on the other side of the river, from Seringes-et-Nesles to beyond Les Jomblets.
		The 42d Division on August 2 advanced over the ground on which the cemetery stands and through the Forêt de Nesles, the large wood seen beyond the cemetery.
		On August 3 the division and its attached units, having suffered nearly 6,500 casualties since July 25, was relieved by the 4th Division which, together with the 32d Division on its right, continued to push forward until the Vesle River was reached.
	www.sauruspress.com /lookback/worldwars/meurcy_farm.htm (773 words)

	The History of the 42nd Infantry “Rainbow Division”
		As a result of this unified effort, the 42nd Infantry Division was born in August and organized in September 1917 at Camp Mills on Long Island, New York Colonel Douglas MacArthur, who had been instrumental in the forming of the Division, said shortly after its completion.
		The 42nd returned in 1947 as a National Guard division and was recognized as a component of the New York Army National Guard.
		In December 1989, the 42nd Division headquarters was moved from New York City to Troy, New York, where it remains today.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/rainbow.html (603 words)

	111th Quartermaster Regiment 1940
		The 36th Division Quartermaster Train was organized in the Texas National Guard during the years 1923-1937, and in 1926 the 117th Supply Train and the 111th Supply Train were reconstituted and consolidated with it.
		To complete its training, the 42nd Division was attached to the French Seventh Army Corps in the Luneville Sector, February 21, 1918, and participated in raids and routine trench warfare.
		The division occupied the support line, but the German attack on July 15 penetrated the front-line positions, enabling the division's artillery and part of the infantry to become actively engaged.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/1940/111qm.htm (815 words)

	UNL \| Libraries \| Archives and Special Collections \| Finding Aids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff for the Division, commented that it "would stretch over the whole country like a rainbow." In this manner, the 42nd became known as the "Rainbow Division." It comprised four infantry regiments from New York, Ohio, Alabama, and Iowa.
		The Rainbow Division was one of the first sent to Europe in 1918 to battles in France.
		As a component of the 7th Army, the Rainbow Division assisted in attacks on German positions in France and on the German frontier.
	www.unl.edu /libr/libs/spec/rdvahist.html (770 words)

	42nd ID Soldiers pack up
		The division is made up of a variety of military specialists able to combat any challenge to include aviation, armory and light infantry units.
		But what it also means for the 42nd ID is the half of the rainbow that represents the division, will, in a sense, be made whole again for the first time since WWI.
		As a result of this unified effort, the 42nd Infantry Division was born in August and organized in September 1917 at Camp Mills on Long Island, New York.
	www.dix.army.mil /pao/Post04/post100104/port.htm (747 words)

	U.S. Army Divisions of World War II: 42nd Infantry Division, Casualties, Generals, Battles & Campaigns
		Activation date is the date the division was activated or inducted into federal service (national guard units).
		Other Wars are the wars in which the division was mobilized.
		The dates after the campaign name are the dates of the campaign not of the division.
	www.historyshots.com /usarmy/Division.cfm?did=42 (182 words)

	OIF III move: 42nd Infantry Division National Guard makes history—again Translog: Journal of Military ...
		Not since World War II has the entire division been called to active duty--now it is being called upon to serve in Iraq.
		The division will replace an active-duty division and that is another first for Army history and the 42nd Infantry.
		Division headquarters are located at Fort Drum, N.Y., but the soldiers are stationed across the United States.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0LEG/is_2004_Fall/ai_n10300768 (723 words)

	The 42nd Rainbow Divison of the US Seventh Army, liberators of Dachau, April 29, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joyce Kilmer, a famous American poet, was a soldier in the Rainbow Division; he was killed in action in France in World War I. The Rainbow Division fought in some of the bloodiest battles of World War I including the battles at Verdun and Argonne, as well as the famous Battle of the Champagne.
		During World War II, the Rainbow Division was activated in July 1943, and following the Normandy Invasion, three Infantry Regiments were sent to Europe in the Autumn of 1944, ahead of the rest of the division which did not arrive in France until January 1945.
		The 42nd claims this honor because Brigadier General Henning Linden accepted the surrender of the camp, but the 45th claims that they were given orders to capture the camp and that they arrived first, overcoming the resistance of the SS soldiers in the adjacent SS Training Camp and Garrison.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/DachauLiberation/Rainbow.html (583 words)

	Rainbow Division Monument
		Eighty years had passed since the Rainbow Division had come together at Camp Mills in 1917 and it was felt that a Memorial Day tribute at the monument was a fitting thing to do.
		Every 42nd Division veteran that could be there was going to be there for the dedication of the monument.
		Colonel William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan was the fighting heart of the Rainbow Division’s 165th Infantry during the trench warfare of Luneville-Baccarat, Champagne-Marne; the San Mihiel and Ourcq River offensives; and the living hell of the Meuse-Argonne.
	sites.communitylink.org /mac/PublicMemory.html (1232 words)

	Francisco Conde Gutierez, brother of Feliciano "Pecha" Gutierez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The division landed in Marseille, France on Dec 9, 1944.
		During the Cold War years, the Division was involved in numerous domestic emergencies while actively training for its wartime mission.
		In addition the division was called upon to provide an opposing force battalion at the National Training Center to help prepare units for deployment overseas.
	k.domaindlx.com /laredotexas/pechagutierrez.htm (1081 words)

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