| 97th Infantry Division |
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the 97th Infantry Division. | | Active | 1918; 1943-1946 | | Country | United States | | Branch | U.S. Army | | Type | Infantry | | Nickname | Trident | The 97th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II. The United States Army is one of the armed forces of the United States and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...
Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert Henry Asquith Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow...
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 TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
World War I
The division was activated 5 September 1918 and inactivated 20 November 1918 ; one infantry regiment (303d) served with the 76th Division. 76th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II. // Activated: August 1917. ...
World War II - Activated: 25 February 1943
- Overseas: 19 February 1945, for the ETO; 28 August 1945, for the Pacific Theater
- Campaigns: Central Europe
- Days of combat: 41 (ETO)
- Awards: MH-1 ; DSC-1 ; DSM-1 ; SS-61; LM-2; SM-3 ; BSM-206
- Commanders: Maj. Gen. Louis A. Craig (4 February 1943-19 January 1944), Brig. Gen. Milton B. Halsey (20 January 1944-24 September 1945), Maj. Gen. Herman F. Kramer (24 September 1945 to inactivation). Returned to U. S.: 26 June 1945, from the ETO
- Overseas: 16 September 1945, to the Philippine Islands
- Inactivated: 31 March 1946 in Japan
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Combat Chronicle The 97th Infantry Division landed at Le Havre, France, 2 March 1945, and moved to Camp Lucky Strike. On 28 March, the division crossed the German border west of Aachen and took up a defensive position along the west bank of the Rhine River opposite Dusseldorf, engaging in patrolling. The 97th entered the battle of the Ruhr pocket, crossing the Rhine near Bonn, 3 April, and taking up a position on the southern bank of the Sieg River. It crossed that river, 7 April, against light resistance and fought a street-to-street engagement in Siegburg on the 10th. Le Havre is a city in Normandy, northern France, on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine. ...
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Pushing on toward Düsseldorf through difficult terrain and heavy resistance in densely wooded areas, the division captured Solingen on 17 April. Düsseldorf fell on the next day and the Ruhr pocket was eliminated. Moving to protect the left flank of the Third Army on its southern drive, the 97th took Cheb, Czechoslovakia, on 25 April 1945 and attacked the Czechoslovak pocket near Widen, Germany, on the 29th. It had advanced to Konstantinovy Lazne, Czechoslovakia, when it received the cease-fire order on 7 May. The division left for Le Havre, 16 June 1945, for redeployment to the Pacific, arriving at Cebu, Philippine Islands, 16 September, and then sailed to Japan for occupation duty, arriving at Yokohama on 23 September 1945. 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. ...
Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Third Army. ...
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Capital Tokyo Language(s) Japanese Political structure Military occupation Military Governor of Japan - 1945-1951 Douglas MacArthur - 1951-1952 Matthew Ridgway Emperor - 1926-1989 Hirohito Historical era Post-WWII - Surrender of Japan August 10, 1945 - San Francisco Peace Treaty September 8, 1951 At the end of the Second World War...
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Assignments in the ETO Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Fifteenth Army. ...
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Lineage Constitude 9 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, XXII Corps. ...
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. First Army. ...
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General - Nickname: Trident.
- Shoulder patch: A vertical trident in white on a 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.
- The Story of the 97th Infantry Division
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