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26th Infantry Division
Active	1917 - 1919 1941 - 1945
Country	United States of America
Branch	Regular Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Nickname	Yankee Division
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War: Battle of the Bulge

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World War I

• Activated: July 1917 (National Guard Division from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).
• Overseas: October 1917.
• Major Operations: Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne
• Days of combat: 210
• Casualties: Total-13,664 (KIA-1,587 ; WIA-12,077)
• Commanders:
  • Maj. Gen. C. R. Edwards (22 August 1917)
  • Brig. Gen. P. E. Traub (12 October 1917)
  • Brig. Gen. C. H. Cole (22 October 1917)
  • Brig. Gen. P. E. Traub (31 October 1917)
  • Maj. Gen. C. R. Edwards (11 November 1917)
  • Brig. Gen. P. E. Traub (25 November 1917)
  • Maj. Gen. C. R. Edwards (1 December 1917)
  • Brig. Gen. Frank E. Bamford (25 October 1918)
  • Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale (19 November 1918)
• Inactivated: May 1919

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World War II

• Activated: 16 January 1941
• Overseas: 26 August 1944
• Campaigns: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
• Days of combat: 210
• Distinguished Unit Citations: 1
• Awards: MH-1 ; DSC-43 ; DSM-1 ; SS-955 ; LM-11; SM-47 ; BSM-5,558 ; AM-81
• Commanders:
  • Maj. Gen. Roger W. Eckfeldt (January 1940-August 1943)
  • Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul (August 1943-1 June 1945)
  • Brig. Gen. Harlan N. Hartness (June-July 1945)
  • Maj. Gen. Stanley E. Reinhart (July-November 1945)
  • Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow (November-December 1945)
• Returned to U. S.: December 1945
• Inactivated: 29 December 1945

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Organization

• 101st, 104th and 328th Infantry Regiments
• 101st, 102nd, 180th, and 263rd Field Artillery Battalions
• 101st Engineer Combat Battalion

Combat Chronicle

The 26th Infantry Division landed in France at Cherbourg and Utah Beach, 7 September 1944, but did not enter combat as a division until a month later, 7 October. Elements were on patrol duty along the coast from Carteret to Siouville, 13-30 September, and the 328th Infantry saw action with the 80th Division to which it was attached, 5-15 October. On 7 October the 26th relieved the 4th Armored Division in the Salonnes-Moncourt-Canal du Rhine au Marne sector, and maintained defensive positions; a limited objective attack was launched, 22 October, in the Moncourt woods. On 8 November the division went on the offensive, took Dieuze, 20 November, advanced across the Saar River to Saar Union, and captured it, 2 December, after house-to-house fighting. Cherbourg is a city of Normandy, in northwestern France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... Combatants United States Germany Commanders Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... The 80th Division (Institutional Training) was a formation of the United States Army. ... Saar loop at Mettlach The Saar (French: Sarre) is a river, that rises in the Vosges mountains in Alsace with two headstreams (Red and White Saar) at the Donon, running through Lorraine and the Saarland, which was named after it. ...

Reaching Maginot fortifications, 5 December, it regrouped, entering Saareguemines 8 December. Rest at Metz was interrupted by the Von Rundstedt offensive. The division moved north to Luxembourg, 19-21 December, to take part in the Battle of the Bulge break-through. It attacked at Rambrouch and Grosbous, 22 December, beat off strong German counterattacks, captured Arsdorf on Christmas Day after heavy fighting, attacked toward the Wiltz River, but was forced to withdraw in the face of determined enemy resistance; after regrouping, 5-8 January 1945, it attacked again, reached the Wiltz River, and finally crossed it, 20 January. The division continued its advance, took Grumelscheid, 21 January, and crossed the Clerf River, 24 January. The 26th then shifted to the east bank of the Saar, and maintained defensive positions in the Saarlautern area, 29 January-6 March 1945. For other uses of Metz, see Metz (disambiguation) City motto: Si paix dedans, paix dehors (French: If peace inside, peace outside) City proper (commune) Région Lorraine Département Moselle (57) Mayor Jean-Marie Rausch Area 41. ... Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt (December 12, 1875 - February 24, 1953) was a field marshal of the German Army during World War II. He held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge Combatants United States United Kingdom Nazi Germany Commanders Dwight Eisenhower George Patton Bernard Montgomery Walther Model Gerd von Rundstedt Adolf Hitler Strength Dec 16 - start of the Battle: about 83,000 men; 242 Sherman tanks, 182...

The division's drive to the Rhine jumped off on 13 March 1945, and carried the division through Merzig, 17 March, to the Rhine, 21 March, and across the Rhine at Oppenheim, 25-26 March. It took part in the house-to-house reduction of Hanau, 28 March, broke out of the Main River bridgehead, drove through Fulda, 1 April, and helped reduce Meiningen, 5 April. Moving southeast into Austria, the division assisted in the capture of Linz, 4 May. It had changed the direction of its advance, and was moving northeast into Czechoslovakia, across the Vltava River, when the cease-fire order was received. Map showing the position of the Main in Germany The Main (pronounced in German like the English word mine) is a river in Germany, 524 km long (including White Main 574 km), and one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine river. ... Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis). ... Meiningen is a town in Germany - located in the Southern part of the state Thuringia in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen. ... Map of Austria, locating Linz Linz is a city and Statutarstadt in northeast Austria, on the Danube river. ... The Vltava   (Moldau in German and many other Germanic languages, Moldva in Hungarian, unrelated to the Moldova river of Romania) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, draining into the north from its source in Å umava through ÄŒeský Krumlov, ÄŒeské BudÄ›jovice, and Prague (Praha), merging with the Elbe...

Assignments in the ETO

• 28 August 1944: Ninth Army, 12th Army Group
• 5 September 1944: III Corps
• 28 September 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group
• 1 October 1944: XII Corps
• 12 December 1944: III Corps
• 28 January 1945: XX Corps
• 23 March 1945: XII Corps

Post WWII History

• 29 December 1945: Inactivated at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
• 13 November 1946: Reorganized as part of the Massachusetts National Guard
• 18 March 1957: Headquartered at Dorchester, Massachusetts
• 1 March 1963: Redesignated as 1st Brigade, 26th Infantry Division, Headquartered at Waltham
• 1 September 1993: Reorganized as 26th Infantry Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division
• 1995: Assigned as 26th Brigade of the 29th Infantry Division
• 2005: Reorganized into the 26th Brigade Combat Team

The 42d Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II, and is the division of the New York National Guard. ... 29th Infantry Division Symbol The U.S. 29th Infantry Division was a United States infantry division that existed during World War I and World War II. Nicknamed Blue and Gray, the divisions motto is 29 Lets Go, taken from General Eisenhowers inspiring speech to the troops preparing...

General

• Nickname: Yankee Division.
• Shoulder patch: Khaki colored, in the shape of a diamond. In the center, in blue are the letters "Y" and "D" in the form of a monogram.
• Later the patch color was changed to olive drab green with black "Y" and "D" in the center. The dress version of the patch is olive drab green with blue letters "Y" and "D" in the same monogram form.

References

• The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 reproduced at CMH.

External links

• Information pertaining to the 26th Infantry Division as a liberating unit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum