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	U.S. 4th Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 4th Infantry Division was organized at Camp Greene, North Carolina on December 10, 1917 under the command of MG George H. Cameron.
		The "Ivy Division" returned from Vietnam in December and was rejoined in Ft. Carson by its former 3rd Brigade from Hawaii, where it had re-deployed as part of the withdrawal of the 25th Infantry Division.
		The 4th Infantry Division was scheduled to take part in the Iraq War in the spring of 2003 by spearheading an advance from Turkey into northern Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_4th_Infantry_Division (3065 words)

	33d Infantry Brigade
		The 66th Infantry Brigade is one of the maneuver brigades of the 35th Infantry Division (Mechanized), headquartered at Fort Leavenworth, KS.
		It was relieved from the 47th Infantry Division on 9 February 1991, and assigned to 34th Infantry Division on 10 February 1991.
		It was relieved from assignment to the 34th Infantry Division and reassigned to the 35th Infantry Division.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/66in-bde.htm (1208 words)

	1st Battalion, 131st Infantry (AASLT)
		It was redesignated on 31 December 1921 at the 132nd Infantry and assinged to the 33rd Division.
		Relieved on 5 July 1946 from assignment to the Americal Division and assigned to the 33d Infantry Division, it was reorganized and Federally recognized on 11 February 1947 at Chicago.
		It reorganized on 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 33d Division; on 1 December 1965 to consist of the 1st Battalion; and on 1 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 33d Infantry Brigade.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/1-131in.htm (710 words)

	Lone Sentry: 66th: The Story of the 66th Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		The 66th was ordered to proceed immediately to the staging and assembly areas of Southern France, and units began the long trip May 26.
		Division artillery battalions were assigned various duties: the 870th FA became MPs; the 871st FA guarded installations at the Miramas Depot; the 872nd FA took over Marseille and Port de Bouc and the 721st FA operated as a transportation unit.
		Normally supplying one division, the 66th QM Co. was required to serve 100,000 men at the peak of the load, the equivalent of seven divisions.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/66thinfantry (4766 words)

	66th Armored Regiment
		On 15 July 1940, the unit was re-designated from the 66th Infantry (Light Tanks) to the 66th Armored Regiment as part of the newly formed 2nd Armored Division, stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
		In December 1942, the 66th as a part of the 2nd Armored Division participated in the amphibious invasion of French Morocco in North Africa and was a part of the Division's triumphant entry into Casablanca.
		On 1 August 1944 the 3rd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment on the north and the 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment on the south of the Villebaudon-Tessy-sur-Vire road, attacked.
	www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com /units/66th.html (2204 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - US Army in World War II
		Forty-two of the infantry divisions and four of the airborne divisions served in the ETO and MTO, the remainder served in the PTO.
		By early 1942 the division was organized substantially the way it would be used in battle, with, in addition to its three infantry regiments, four artillery battalions (three twelve-tube 105mm light battalions and one twelve-tube 155mm howitzer medium battalion), a cavalry reconnaissance troop, and division service troops.
		In this way the 501st and 506th Parachute Infantry were attached to the 101st Airborne Division, the 508th Parachute Infantry to the 82nd Airborne Division, the 507th Parachute Infantry to the 17th Airborne Division, and the 517th Parachute Infantry to the 11th Airborne Division.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/usarmy/infantry.aspx (1394 words)

	71st Infantry Division Official Web Page
		Organized as a light division with 9,000 personnel and 1800 mules -- as a mountain division, transportation being the army mule with 75mm howitzers, schooled in mountain and jungle warfare.
		In June,1944, reorganized as a mechanized triangular infantry division with 15,700 personnel.
		Infantry regiments increased from 2,075 to 3,350 and the artillery three artillery battalions swapped their 75mm howitzers for the larger 105mm howitzers and picked up the 564th FA Bn, which had 155mm guns.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Valley/4020/71st.html (670 words)

	List of military divisions by number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of military divisions of all nationalities organised by number.
		Divisions may be infantry, airborne, cavalry, mechanized or armoured.
		British 52nd (Lowland) Division (World War I) British 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (World War II)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_military_divisions_by_number (218 words)

	World War II Books: Unit Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Crozon Peninsula was cleared, 19 September, and the Division drove across France to Luxembourg, moved to the Hurtgen Forest, 20 November, cleared Hurtgen on the 28th and Brandenburg, 3 December, and pushed on to the Roer.
		In July 1943 the Division was concentrated on Oahu, and relieved the 24th of the defense of the North Sector.
		Meanwhile, the remainder of the Division relieved the 6th Infantry Division in the Sarmi-Wakde Island area, 18 July 1944, built bridges, roads, and docks, patrolled the area, and engaged small units of the enemy, trying not to provoke a large scale counterattack by the enemy.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /WWII_uh.html (5989 words)

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		Japanese 2,634-ton transport carrying hundreds of US and Filipino prisoners of war, captured near Lasang, were being transported from the island of Mindano when attacked by an American submarine, the USS Paddle commanded by Lt. Cdr.
		On this Christmas Eve the ship carried 2,235 men of the US 64th Infantry Regiment of the US 66th Infantry Division which had left New York on November 14th.
		The 66th Infantry Division alone, lost 14 officers and 748 men, but the exact number is not known due to the hurried departure at 9am from Pier 38 at Southhampton and the unorganized boarding procedures.
	www.histarmar.com.ar /Hund2GMA/1944a.htm (5676 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: December
		December 1, 1943: Conclusion of the Tehran Conference, with the three Allies in substantial agreement on the division of postwar Germany and the westward movement of the Polish eastern and western frontiers.
		December 19, 1941: Frogmen of the Italian Navy penetrate the port of Alexandria in Egypt and damage the British battleships HMS Valiant and Queen Elizabeth.
		December 19, 1944: SHAEF orders the 101st Airborne Division as well as the 10th Armored Division to be detached from 3rd Army and moved north to support the US forces under attack in the Ardennes, particularly to aid the 28th Infantry Division in its defense of the vital road junction of Bastogne.
	www.feldgrau.com /december.html (2214 words)

	U.S. Army Divisions of World War II: 66th 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=66 (174 words)

	World War II: The Western and Mediterranean Fronts, 1942-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 89th Infantry Division was one of the U.S. Army's experimental light divisions, but due to pressure for new divisions overseas and a general need for flexibility, it was converted back to a standard infantry division table of organization and equipment.
		The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December.
		The 29th Infantry Division was composed of National Guard units from Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland.
	www.generalstafflibrary.com /Western_and_Mediterranean_Fronts.html (13492 words)

	Bulletin Board for 66th Infantry Division
		name was jose guadalupe cortez"corky" pictuers have the division patch, his records show he was in africa theter euorpean theather france, was wounded in the battle of the bulge he was a coprl.
		With his certificate we found a picture of a 66th infantry division monument and a patch.
		Sgt HOUSE, and my uncle, Pvt (Later, Sgt) LOWELL were pals in the 262nd Reg of the 66th Div, who trained together at Fort Blanding, Fort Rucker and Camp Robinson.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,100042,00.html?Page=2 (384 words)

	History for 66th Infantry Division
		Picture book regarding the Leopoldville disaster of Christmas Eve 1944 in which 763 soldiers of the 66th Infantry division were killed when their troopship was torpedoed & sunk in the English Channel off of Cherbourg, France.
		The Official Division History first published in 1946.
		Torpedoed on in the English Channel with a loss of 762 troops, the division reached Cherbourg France on Christmas Day, 1945.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,100042,00.html (82 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - Leopoldville (Troop transport)
		At 17.54 hours on 24 Dec, 1944, the Leopoldville (Master Charles Limbor) in convoy WEP-3 was hit by one of two torpedoes from U-486 about five miles off Cherbourg and sank over the stern at 20.40 hours.
		The ship carried 2235 officers and ratings of the US 66th Infantry Division and a crew of 139 men.
		If you can help us with any additional information on this vessel then please contact us.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/3399.html (149 words)

	1944
		The U.S. escort carrier Block Island is sunk by U-549.
		U-505, patrolling off Cape Blanco on the West African coast is forced to the surface by depth-charges from the U.S. destroyer escort Chatelain and is captured intact and towed to Bermuda by the escort carrier Guadalcanal.
		In the English Channel, U-486 (Oblt.z.S. Gerhard Meyer) sinks the allied troop carrier SS Leopoldville with the loss of 763 men of the US 66th Infantry Division.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1944seawar.asp (644 words)

	CNN.com - Special Reports
		At least 18,988 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon.
		View casualties in the war in Afghanistan and examine U.S. war casualties dating back to the Revolutionary War.
		Allen died on June 8, 2005, in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in an alleged fratricide attack in Tikrit, Iraq, on June 7, 2005.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/index.html (7435 words)

	North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster
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		Copies of the addenda section to volume III are available also and sell for $4.50 each.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/nc_rostr/default.htm (506 words)

	4ArmedForces 66th Infantry Division Lapel Pin
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	Welcome to Saint Vincent College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Henry Hank Stairs (Ligonier, PA. 30th Infantry Division)
		+ Richard Radock (US 80th Infantry Division, ETO).
		Leroy "Whitey" Schaller (Bolivar, PA. 28th Division, ETO).
	www.stvincent.edu /napp10 (315 words)

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