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World War II

• Activated: 15 September 1942.
• Overseas: 6 August 1944.
• Campaigns: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
• Days of combat: 209.
• Distinguished Unit Citations: 1.
• Awards: MH-1; DSC-54; DSM-2; SS-510; LM-10; SM-12; BSM-2,792; AM-66.
• Commanders: Maj. Gen. Harry J. Malony (September 1942 May 1945), Brig. Gen. Louis J. Fortier (June-July 1945) Maj. Gen. Allison J. Barnett (1 August 1945 to inactivation).
• Returned to U.S.: 6 February 1946.
• Inactivated: 9 February 1946.

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Combat Chronicle

Following a brief stay in England, the 94th landed on Utah Beach on D plus 94, 8 September 1944, and moved into Brittany to assume responsibility for containing some 60,000 German troops besieged in the Channel ports of Lorient and St. Nazaire. The 94th inflicted over 2,700 casualties on the enemy and took 566 prisoners before being relieved on New Year's Day 1945. Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... Combatants United States Germany Commanders Raymond O. Barton Theodore Roosevelt Jr U.S. 4th Infantry Division Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben Dietrich Kraiss German 352nd Infantry Division German 709th Infantry Division Strength 32,000  ? Casualties 700 Unknown American assault troops move onto Utah Beach, carrying full equipment. ... This article is about The place Lorient in France. ... Saint-Nazaire is also a commune of the Gard département of France. ...

Moving west, the Division took positions in the Saar-Moselle Triangle, facing the Siegfried Switch Line, 7 January 1945, and shifted to the offensive, 14 January, seizing Tettingen and Butzdorf that day. The following day, the NennigBerg-Wies area was wrested from the enemy, but severe counterattacks followed, and Butzdorf, Berg, and most of Nennig changed hands several times before being finally secured. On the 20th, an unsuccessful battalion attack against Orscholz, eastern terminus of the switch position, resulted in loss of most of two companies. In early February the Division took Campholz woods and seized Sinz. On 19 February 1945, the Division launched a full-scale attack, storming the heights of Munzigen Ridge, backbone of the Saar-Moselle Triangle, and took all objectives.

Moving forward, the 10th Armored and 94th secured the area from Orscholz to the confluence of the Saar and Moselle Rivers by 21 February 1945. Then, launching an attack across the Saar, it established and expanded a bridgehead. By 2 March 1945, the Division stretched over a 10-mile front, from Hocker Hill on the Saar through Zerf, and Lampaden to Ollmuth. A heavy German attack near Lampaden achieved penetrations, but the line was shortly restored, and on 13 March, spearheading the XX Corps, the 94th broke out of the bridgehead and drove to the Rhine, reaching that river, 21 March. Ludwigshafen was taken, 24 March, in conjunction with CCA of the 12th Armored Division. The Division then moved by rail and motor to the vicinity of Krefeld, Germany, assuming responsibility, 3 April, for containing the west side of the Ruhr pocket from positions along the Rhine. With the reduction of the pocket in mid-April, the Division was assigned military government duties, first in the Krefeld and later in the Dusseldorf areas. Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 10th Armored Division. ... Mosel basin area The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, Luxembourgish Musel, Dutch Moezel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany. ... The XX Corps fought from northern France to Austria in World War II. Constituted by redesignating the IV Armored Corps, which had been activated at Camp Young, California on September 5, 1942. ... Map of Germany showing Ludwigshafen am Rhein Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, with about 166,000 inhabitants. ... The 12th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. // The division was activated on 15 September 1942. ... Krefeld is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... It has been suggested that River Rhine Pollution: November 1986 be merged into this article or section. ...

Assignments in the ETO

• 27 July 1944: XIII Corps, Ninth Army.
• 28 August 1944: XIII Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
• 23 September 1944: Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
• 9 October 1944: 12th Army Group.
• 5 January 1945: 12th Army Group, but attached to Oise Section, Communication Zone, for supply.
• 6 January 1945: XX Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group.
• 29 March 1945: XXII Corps, Fifteenth Army, 12th Army Group.

187th Infantry Brigade

In 1963, a separate Infantry Brigade was organized in the US Army Reserve using the lineage of the Division's 1st Brigade. However, the brigade used its own shoulder sleeve insignia. The 187th Infantry Brigade was inactivated in 1994. Shoulder Sleeve Insignia for the U.S. 1st Infantry Division SSI for the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division A United States Army Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (SSI) or shoulder patch is a cloth heraldic device that uniquely identifies major U.S. Army units. ... The 187th Infantry Brigade was first formed under the United States Army Reserves 94th Army Reserve Command, which wore the patch of the inactivated 94th Infantry Division, from which the 187th was formed when the 94th was inactivated and the combat element reduced to brigade size. ...

General

• Nickname: Neuf-cats.
• Shoulder patch: A circle divided diagonally into fields of gray and black; the Arabic number 9 in black superimposed in the field of gray and the Arabic number 4 in gray is on the field of black.
• State Highway 94 in Colorado, New York and New Jersey are numbered after the 94th Infantry Division.

References

• The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/lineage/cc/cc.htm
• On the Way: The Story of the 94th Infantry Division

External links

• Fact Sheet of the 94th Infantry Division from http://www.battleofthebulge.org