The 102d Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War II. A military unit is an organisation within an armed force. ... The United States Army is the largest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

World War II

• Activated: 15 September 1942
• Overseas: 12 September 1944
• Campaigns: Rhineland, Central Europe
• Days of combat: 173
• Distinguished Unit Citations: 4
• Awards: DSC-8 ; DSM-1 ; SS-686; LM-15; SM-39 ; BSM-5,498 ; AM-91.
• Commanders: Maj. Gen. John B. Anderson (September 1942-4 January 1944), Maj. Gen. Frank A. Keating (8 January 1944-February 1946), Brig. Gen. Charles M. Busbee (February 1946 to inactivation).
• Returned to U.S.: 11 March 1946.
• Inactivated: 23 March 1946.

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Combat Chronicle

The 102d Infantry Division arrived at Cherbourg, France, 23 September 1944, and, after a short period of training near Valognes, moved to the German-Netherlands border. On 26 October, elements attached to other divisions entered combat and on 3 November the Division assumed responsibility for the sector from the Wurm to Waurichen. A realignment of sectors and the return of elements placed the 102d in full control of its units for the first time, 24 November 1944, as it prepared for an attack to the Roer. The attack jumped off, 29 November, and carried the Division to the river through Welz, Flossdorf, and Linnich. Cherbourg is a city of Normandy, in northwestern France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... See also Wurm (disambiguation). ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Rur (-German, in Dutch: Roer, not to be confused with the Ruhr) is a river in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

After a period of aggressive patrolling along the Roer, 4-19 December, the Division took over the XIII Corps sector from the Wurm River, north of the village of Wurm, to Barmen on the south, and trained for river crossing. On 23 February 1945, the 102d attacked across the Roer, advanced toward Lövenich and Erkelenz, bypassed München-Gladbach, took Krefeld, 3 March, and reached the Rhine. During March the Division was on the defensive along the Rhine, its sector extending from Homburg south to Düsseldorf. Crossing the river in April, the Division attacked in the Wesergebirge, meeting stiff opposition. Wilsede and Hessisch-Oldendorf fell, 12 April 1945, and the 102d pushed on to the Elbe, meeting little resistance. Breitenfeld fell, 15 April, and the Division outposted the Elbe River, 48 miles from Berlin, its advance halted on orders. December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Barmen is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Erkelenz is a town in Rhineland, in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, in the rural district (Kreis) Heinsberg, has 45279 inhabitants (May 2005) and covers an area of 117,35 Km². // Geography Erkelenz is situated in the lowland of the Niederrheinische Bucht. The area is covered by loess, a very... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (63rd in leap years). ... The Rhine (German: ; Dutch: ; French: ; Italian: ; Romansh: ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. ... Saarpfalz (Saar-Palatinate) is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of the Saarland, Germany. ... Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and (together with Cologne and the Ruhr Area) the economic center of Western Germany. ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... This article is about a river in Central Europe. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ...

On 15 April the division discovered a war crime in Gardelegen. On April 13, 1945 (less than a month from the end of the Second World War), German SS and Luftwaffe troops, retreating from the Allied advance, murdered 1016 political and military prisoners near the German town of Gardelegen. ...

It patrolled and maintained defensive positions until the end of hostilities in Europe, then moved to Gotha for occupational duty. Gotha is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Thuringia, Germany. ...

Assignments in the European Theater of Operations

• 28 August 1944: Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
• 5 September 1944: III Corps.
• 10 October 1944: XVI Corps.
• 3 November 1944: XIX Corps.
• 7 November 1944: XIII Corps.
• 20 December 1944: XIII Corps, Ninth Army (attached to the British 21st Army Group), 12th Army Group.
• 1 April 1945: XIII Corps (for administration), Ninth Army, but attached for operations to the Fifteenth Army.
• 4 April 1945: XIII Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.

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General

• Nickname: Ozark Division.
• Slogan: Distinction, valor, marksmanship.
• Shoulder patch: A golden "O", "Z" and an arc on a circular blue background.

References

• The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 reproduced at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/lineage/cc/cc.htm.

External link

• With the 102d Infantry Division through Germany