Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: US 41st Infantry Division


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  U.S. 7th Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division was created at Camp Wheeler, Georgia on 6 December 1917 and served in Alsace-Lorraine, France in World War I. The division served as occupation forces in the post-war period and was later deactivated in 1923.
In 1943 the division was trained in amphibious warfare and later participated in the liberation of the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska.
The 1st Brigade was reflagged as the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division while the 2nd Brigade was deactivated completely and the 3rd Brigade of the 7th was reflagged as the 1st Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_7th_Infantry_Division   (1052 words)

  
 U.S. 3d Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) —nicknamed the Rock of the Marne— is a United States Army infantry division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Engaged in the Aisne-Marne Offensive as a member of the American Expeditionary Force to Europe, the Division was protecting Paris with a position on the banks of the Marne River, surrounding units retreated, the 3rd Infantry Division remained rock solid and earned its reputation as the "Rock of the Marne".
As part of the Army's reduction to a ten-division force, the 24th Infantry Division was inactivated on 15 February 1996, and reflagged to become the 3rd Infantry Division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_3rd_Infantry_Division   (2103 words)

  
 41st Division, US Army
The men of the US 41st Infantry Division were the first US troops to land in Australia around the middle of March 1942.
The 41st Ordnance Company of the 41st Infantry Division were camped in the Rockhampton Showgrounds in December 1942 when they witnessed the crash of an RAAF Tiger Moth on 11 December 1942.
One of these is the son of a US serviceman who received a bravery award for rescuing an RAAF pilot of a Tiger Moth which crashed in grounds of the present Rockhampton High School at Wandal.
home.st.net.au /~dunn/usarmy/41stdiv.htm   (1158 words)

  
 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team
The state mission of the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team is to, on order of the Governor, or the local commander, unit mobilize and deploy in response to emergency situations in the State of Oregon.
The 41st Infantry Division reformed in Oregon in 1946.
It was reorganized in 1965 as the 41st Infantry Brigade.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/41in-bde.htm   (1163 words)

  
 1st Battalion 34th Infantry Regiment History
Infantry was constituted on January 29, 1813 and in October 1815 was consolidated with The Regiment of Light Artillery.
Infantry Regiment and was reorganized and re-designated the 34
Infantry Regiment led the rapid advance from Pikit to Digos and fought a fierce battle along the cliffs on the north bank of the Taloma River.
www.jackson.army.mil /334/history.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Division
Divisions are supported administratively and logistically by Corps Support Commands (COSCOM) which are responsible for the centralized management of supplies, maintenance, and movement of personnel and materiel beyond the capability of the divisions.
DXXI is the division design needed to serve as the core force essential for force cohesion and dominance to meet the demands in performing offensive and defensive operations in the expanded Division Battle Space of the future.
The infantry division (motorized) was organized to meet the security demands of the dynamic and potentially volatile international environment, and to be highly flexible and strategically responsive across a broad spectrum of conflict.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/army/unit/division.htm   (3230 words)

  
 41st Division Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Division device on the front, and the name and unit designation of a 41st Division veteran on the reverse.
Verterans of the 41st Division and their families are eligible to join.
The magnificent manner in which the Division relentlessly met, defeated, and pursued the enemy shall forever be an inspiration to all military men who believe in Democracy and Freedom.
www.41stdivision.com   (917 words)

  
 41st Armored Infantry Regiment
The 41st was constituted as 41st Infantry Regiment 15 May 1917, and organized at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota, from the personnel of the 36th Infantry Regiment.
The 41st participated in the assault on Sicily, landing at Licata, Sicily and engaged in the battle for Canicati, Sicily.
Throughout the first half of August, 1944, the Division held its ground on the north and south flanks of the German thrust and by steady pressure drove the enemy back, aiding materially in the eventual closing the Falaise gap.
www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com /units/41st.html   (1676 words)

  
 7th Infantry Division (Light)
The Bayonet was forged in the fields of France, tempered on the frozen tundra and mountains of the Aleutians, the coral atolls and islands of the South Pacific, and then honed razor sharp in the mountains and rice paddies of Korea.
The 7th Infantry Division was reactivated on June 4, 1999, at Fort Carson, Colorado, as the first Active Component/Reserve Component division.
The Reserve units that make up the 7th Infantry Division are the 39th Enhanced Separate Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard, the 41st Enhanced Separate Brigade of the Oregon National Guard and the 45th Enhanced Separate Brigade of the Oklahoma National Guard.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/7id.htm   (384 words)

  
 Historical Sketch, 41st US Infantry during the Civil War - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
He was given the colonelcy of the Forty-first New York Infantry, a regiment which he was largely instrumental in organizing, and which contained a great number of German soldiers who had served with him in Holstein.
This division was detached from General McClellan's army in April, 1862, and ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, where it was to join General Fremont's command; but it did not arrive there until May 9th.
The condition of the men when they arrived, according to General Fremont, “was not such as could have been desired.” They were worn and exhausted by hardships scarcely credible, and in spite of efforts to supply their wants, a large proportion were without articles of first necessity for service in the field.
www.dmna.state.ny.us /historic/reghist/civil/infantry/41stInf/41stInfHistSketch.htm   (3381 words)

  
 To Our Friends at Howard Springs Primary School in NT Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Infantry and artillery cooperated to drive the Japanese out of their positions during the advance to the key Cyclops Airdrome.
On January 9, 1945 all Idaho units of the Forty-first Infantry Division, except for the 116th Eng Cmbt Bn and the Ninety-eighth Cml Mtr Bn, landed on Mindoro.
Field Artillery and other division units were sent to Camp Murray, Fort Lewis Washington, where headquarters was maintained and training conducted until November 15th 1941 at which time The War Department ordered the 148th Field Artillery (less 2nd Battalion) to proceed to the San Francisco Part of Embarkation for further disposition from that station.
inghro.state.id.us /museum/Australia.htm   (5353 words)

  
 Oregon History - 41st Infantry Division
The division was mobilized for World War II 16th September, 1940, and campaigned in Papua, New Guinea, Luzon and the Southern Philippines.
The Sunset Division was reactivated in 1947 and reorganized as the 41st Infantry Brigade, Oregon Army National Guard 1 March, 1968.
Lineage and honors previously awarded the 41st (Sunset) Infantry Division were transferred to the brigade.
www.oregon.com /history/hm/41st_infantry.cfm   (138 words)

  
 The 41st Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division: memoirs of World War II Military Review - Find Articles
Francis B. Catanzaro's With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific, A Soldiers Story, a personal memoir of a young infantryman, juxtaposed against Don M. Fox's Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, provides an opportunity for us to relive the events that shaped their lives.
On New Year's Eve 1945, the 41st Infantry Division cased colors, and the soldiers still in Japan were reassigned without fanfare.
More than 60 years later, Catanzaro describes the end of the 41st ID as "sad and inglorious." The end of the 41st was in some ways fitting because the battles it fought in New Guinea and the Philippines were "poverty row" compared to the experiences in Europe of the better-known 4th Armored Division (AD).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_2004_May-June/ai_n6123969   (948 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | Military History | Korean War: Forgotten 24th and 34th Infantry Regiments
The 24th Infantry Regiment was formed a few years after the end of the Civil War, when the Army organized the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry regiments and 24th and 25th U.S. Infantry regiments, each comprised of fl soldiers led by white officers.
Subsequently attached to the 41st Infantry Division, the 34th seized the Sorido and Boroke airbases on Biak Island, and spearheaded the division's drive across Leyte in the Philippine Islands, remaining in constant contact with Japanese forces for 75 consecutive days.
Attached to the 38th Infantry Division in January 1945, the 34th Infantry fought at Subic Bay and Bataan (where its Company F suffered 90-percent casualties in one day), at Zig Zag Pass and at Corregidor, rejoining the 24th Division for the Mindanao campaign.
www.historynet.com /magazines/military_history/3028366.html   (936 words)

  
 Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community
On Okinawa, the US 4th Marine Regiment eliminates the Japanese casemates and underground positions on Machishi Hill.
US Task Force 16, with the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Hornet, returns to Pearl Harbor.
Tanks were not advanced enough to be much more than infantry support weapons when the war ended and advancing technology caused thought and tactics to fall into the realm of the military dreamer.
forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/22   (10183 words)

  
 US Army: 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) Order of Battle - Jan-Mar 1991
The 24th Infantry Division was stationed at Ft Stewart,GA in early 1990.
The division was the heavy element of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Ft Bragg, NC.
In November, upon the orders from Central Command, the division prepared itself for offensive action to expel the Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as part of an Allied coalition the likes not seen since World War II.
www.orbat.com /site/history/historical/usa/24thinfantrydivision.html   (172 words)

  
 The Wartime Memories Project - 41st Armored Infantry Regiment - US Army
The 41st Armored Infantry Regiment was constituted as 41st Infantry Regiment 15 May 1917 at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota, from the 36th Infantry Regiment.
Assigned to the 2nd Armored Division the 41st were in action in France in the area of Mortain, Vire, Flers, Domfront.
The 41st was was cited for thier part in the drive to break the Siegfried line east of the Roer river.
www.wartimememories.co.uk /allied/usarmy/41starmouredinfantryregiment.html   (698 words)

  
 South Pacific Campaign - Ordeal on Biak
From mid-1943 to early 1944 the US and Australian forces outmaneuvered their Japanese opponents, reducing and leaving behind the massive defensive works of Rabaul and Truk, trapping thousands of badly needed Japanese defenders sitting-out the war amid growing squalor and privation.
A risk with each island hop run by the US would be if the Japanese navy and air forces mounted and sustained a counter-attack that would cut-off the American spearhead.
By early 1944 General MacArthur feared the upcoming US Navy offensive to take the Marianas to the north could lead to a strategic switch in offensive operations that would jeopardize his ambition and promise to retake the Philippines (as well as taking away the spotlight his operations commanded to this point in the war).
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/article/ah20060217c   (745 words)

  
 Oregon Military Department Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 1 Battalion 162 Infantry is a proud organization tracing it's lineage to 20 May 1887 as it formed from existing companies of the Infantry Brigade (1st, 2d, and 3d Infantry Regiments), Oregon National Guard.
The unit was again redesigned 7 October 1921 as 162d Infantry and assigned to the 41st Division (later the 41st Infantry Division).
On 1 April 1959 the unit was reorganized as the 162d Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st and 2d Battle Groups, element of the 41st Infantry Division.
www.mil.state.or.us /PressRel/2006/1-06-06Press.html   (654 words)

  
 U.S. Army Divisions of World War II: 41st 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=41   (191 words)

  
 Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
US Army General Douglas MacArthur became commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific in March 1942.
Beginning in September 1942, an Allied force (consisting mainly of Australian troops and the US 32nd Infantry Division) pushed the advancing Japanese back over the formidable Owen Stanley Mountains to strong fortifications near Buna and Gona.
Buna was more heavily defended, and after reinforcement by the US 41st Infantry Division, the Allies fought yard-by-yard through dense jungles and malarial swamps before finally overpowering the stalwart Japanese defenders and capturing Buna on 22 January 1943.
www.defencejournal.com /2003/jan/bookreview2.htm   (477 words)

  
 Second World War Books: Books by Subject
Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy.
A History of the US 29th Infantry Division in WWII.
Lockhart, Vincent M. T-Patch to Victory: The 36th Infantry Division from the Landing in Southern France to the End of Wor.
www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bib157010.shtml   (2404 words)

  
 Some of the Books from Guidon Books Confederate Section
Story of an officer in the Ninth Louisiana Infantry Regiment who rose to the rank of major and able to meet the leaders of the Army of Northern Virginia.
An officer in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment, serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee and north Georgia.
As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry.
www.guidon.com /confed.html   (11749 words)

  
 Catalog of Negro Army Units
The patch of the 93rd Division was a French steel helmet because its four Regiments served with the French in WW I. Divisions - Some Regiments fought with the 93rd Division in WW I but the 92nd in WW II 92nd Infantry Division
In WW II the 93rd Division fought in the Pacific Theater.
In WW II it was part of the 92nd Division rather than the 93rd and arrived in Italy in WW II ahead of the Division Headquarters Units and fought as the 370th Regimental Combat Team until the rest of the Division arrived.
www.ritesofpassage.org /mil_catalog.htm   (543 words)

  
 Oregon Military Department Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 41st Infantry Division, also known as the "Jungleers," was Federally Activated on September 15, 1940.
The 41st Infantry Division became the first National Guard Division to deploy overseas in World War II.
It also was the first American Division sent overseas after Pearl Harbor, the first United States Division to deploy to the South Pacific, and the first American Division trained in Jungle Warfare, a skill that proved to be invaluable in the War.
www.mil.state.or.us /PressRel/2005/9-14-05Press.html   (176 words)

  
 DefendAmerica News - Officials Identify Army Casualties
Williams was assigned to the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2d Infantry Division, Camp Howze, Korea.
Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Gibbs was assigned to 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division, Camp Greaves, Korea.
www.defendamerica.mil /articles/Dec2004/a121004td1.html   (146 words)

  
 Gracie's (Moody's) Alabama Brigade
Moody joined the 11th Alabama Infantry as captain and became acquainted with Major Archibald Gracie, with whom he was associated for the rest of the war.
The 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized on 16 May 1862 with men from Blount, Fayette, Greene, Perry, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, and Washington counties.
The 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment was formed by the consolidation of the Second and Fourth Battalions of Hilliard's Legion.
www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/gracie.html   (2688 words)

  
 3d United States Infantry Regiment
His initial assignment was with the 1st Battalion 17th Infantry, 2d Infantry Division in the Republic of South Korea, where he served as Rifle Platoon Leader, Scout Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer and Company Commander.
Colonel Pricone’s subsequent assignments include the U.S. Army Human Resources Command where he served as Infantry Branch assignments officer for Lieutenants and Captains, the 4th Infantry division with assignments as the 3d Brigade Combat Team S-1, Battalion Operations Officer for the 1st Battalion 8th Infantry and Executive Officer for the 3d Brigade Combat Team.
During his tenure as Battalion Commander the Task Force was the Division Ready Force 1 and conducted a short notice deployment to Southwest Asia.
www.army.mil /oldguard/command.htm   (534 words)

  
 DefendAmerica News - Defense Officials Identify Casualties
Morris was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 3d Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Ga.
Richardson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
During Operation Iraq Freedom, Kinchen was attached to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force.
www.defendamerica.mil /articles/apr2005/a040605la6.html   (167 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.