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36th Infantry
Division
Order of Battle
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
141st Infantry Regiment
142nd Infantry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
442nd Infantry Regiment (attached Oct - Nov 44)
36th Infantry Division Artillery
131st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
132nd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
133rd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
155th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
36th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized)
111th Engineer Combat Battalion
111th Medical Battalion
36th Infantry Division Military Police Platoon
36th Infantry Division Special Troops
36th Quartermaster Company
36th Signal Company
736th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
36th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Casualties
Killed - 1,523
Killed in action - 3,131
Wounded in action - 13,191
Died of wounds - 506
Campaigns
Naples - Foggia 9 Sep 43 - 21 Jan 44 Anzio 22 Jan - 24 May 44 Rome - Arno
22 Jan - 9 Sep 44
Southern France 15 Aug - 14 Sep 44 Rhineland 15 Sept 44 - 21 Mar 45 Ardennes - Alsace 16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45 Central Europe 22 Mar - 11 May 45
Medals
Medal of Honor - 14
Distinguished Service Crosses - 80
Distinguished Service Medals - 2
Silver Stars - 2,354
Legion of Merit Medals - 49
Soldier\'s Medals - 77
Bronze Star Medals - 5,407
Air Medals - 88
Medal of Honor Recepients
Bernard P. Bell, T/Sgt.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company I
Mittelwihr, France
18 December 1944
Arnold L. Bjorklund, 1st Lt.
36th Infantry Division
nr. Altavilla, Italy
September 13, 1943
Charles H. Coolidge, T/Sgt.
141st Infantry Regiment - Company M
Belmont sur Buttant, France
October 24 - 27, 1944
Morris E. Crain, T/Sgt.
141st InfantryRegiment - Company E
Haguenau, France
March 13, 1945
William J. Crawford, Pvt.
36th Infantry Division
nr. Altavilla, Italy
September 13, 1943
Edward C. Dahlgren, Sgt.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company E
Oberhoffen, France
February 11, 1945
Emile Deleau, Jr., Sgt.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company A
Oberhoffen, France
February 12, 1945
Stephen R. Gregg, 2nd Lt.
143rd Infantry Regiment
nr. Montelimar, France
August 27, 1944
Silvestre S. Herrera, Pfc.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company E
nr. Mertzwiller, France
March 15, 1945
Charles E. Kelly, Cpl.
143rd Infantry Regiment - Company L
nr. Altavilla, Italy,
September 13, 1943
James M. Logan, Sgt.
36th Infantry Division
nr. Salerno, Italy
September 9, 1943
Thomas E. McCall, S/Sgt.
143rd Infantry Regiment - Company F
nr. San Angelo, Italy
January 22, 1944
Ellis R. Weicht, Sgt.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company F
St. Hippolyte, France
December 3, 1944
Homer L. Wise, S/Sgt.
142nd Infantry Regiment - Company L
Magliano, Italy
June 14, 1944
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1940
25 Nov- The 36th was called up Active Federal Service at San Antonio, Texas. 14 Dec- The Division departed for its Mobilization Station at Camp Bowie, Texas. 1941 1 Jun- The 36th moved to Brownwood, Texas where it participated in the VIII Corps Brownwood Maneuvers. 13 Jun- The Division returned to Camp Bowie. Aug- The Division moved to Mansfield, Louisiana, and took part in Louisiana Maneuvers Aug. and Sep. 2 Oct- The Division returned to Camp Bowie. 1942 1 Feb- The Division was reorganized into a Triangular Infantry Division. 19 Feb- The Division moved to Camp Blanding, Florida. 9 Jul- The Division participated in the Carolina Maneuvers till 15Aug. 17 Aug- The Division was Staged at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts for its Port Call. 1943
2 Apr- The Division departed the New York Port of Embarkation for North Africa. 13 Apr- The 36th Infantry Division landed in North Africa and trained at Arzew and Rabat. 9 Sep- The Division first saw action,when it landed by sea at Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno against intense German opposition. 12 Sep- The Germans launched counterattacks but the 36th repulsed them with the aid of air support and naval gunfir and advanced slowly, securing the area from Agropoli to Altavilla. 15 Nov- After a brief rest the 36th returned to combat the 36th captured Mount Maggiore, Mount Lungo, and the village of San Pietro despite strong enemy positions and severe winter weather. 1944 1 Jan- This grueling campaign was marked by futile attempts to establish a secure bridgehead across the Rapido River until 8 Feb. 12 Mar- After assisting the 34th Division in the attack on Cassino and fighting defensively along the Rapido River, the severely depleted 36th withdrew for rest and rehabilitation. 25 May- The Division was sent by sea to the Anzio bridgehead to take part in Operation Diadem. 1 Jun- The 36th drove north to capture Velletri. 5 Jun- The Division entered Rome. 26 Jun- Pushing up from Rome, the 36th encountered sharp resistance at Magliano, but reached Piombino before moving back to Paestum for rest and rehabilitation. 15 Aug- As part of the American 6th Army Group, the Division made another amphibious assault landing, against light opposition in the Saint-Raphaël-Fréjus area of Southern France as part of Operation Dragoon. 28 Aug- Montelimar fell and large German units were trapped. 15 Sep- The Division was attached to the French First Army and advanced to the Moselle River at Remiremont and the foothills of the Vosges. In a grinding offensive, the Division crossed the Meurthe River, breached the Ste. Marie Pass and burst
into the Alsatian Plains. 13 Dec- The enemy counterattacked but the 36th held the perimeter of the Colmar Pocket. 15 Dec- The Division was released from attachment to the First French Army, and returned to the control of VI Corps. 20 Dec- The Division resumed the attack, advancing northward along the Rhine River to Mannheim meeting heavy resistance at Haguenau, Oberhofen, and Wissembourg. In this action Company \"G\" 143rd Infantry Regiment gained a Presidential Unit Citation. 27 Dec- The Division was reassigned to XXI Corps.
30 Dec- The Division returned to Seventh Army Reserve and was taken out of the line for the first time since it had landed in the south of France. 1945 3 Jan- The Division was reassigned to XV Corps. 18 Jan- The Division was reassigned to VI Corps. Mar- The Division returned to the line early March. 29 Mar- The 36th was reassigned to the Seventh Army. 22 Apr- The Division moved to the Danube River. 27 Apr- The Division was reassigned to the XXI Corps. 30 Apr- The Division attacked the \"National Redoubt\" at Künzelsau. 8 May- The division was based in Kitzbuhel, Austria where it captured Field Marshall Gerd Von Runstedt, the commander of all German army forces on the Western front. 14 Aug- The Division\'s final station was at Kufstein, Austria. Dec- After 400 days of combat, the 36th Infantry Division returned to the United States. 15 Dec- The Division was returned to the Texas Army National Guard.
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36th Infantry Division
in World War II
CD 1
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Five Years,
Five Countries,
Five Campaigns
An Account of the
141st Infantry Regiment
in World War II
CD1
157 Pages - PDF
20 - 22 Jan 44
36th Infantry Division
141st Infantry Regiment
Rapido River
Cassino
CD1
31 Pages - PDF
20 - 22 Jan 44
36th Infantry Division
143rd Infantry Regiment
Operations in the
attacks across the Rapido River, Near Sant\' Angelo, Italy
Rome-Arno
Campaign
CD1
35 Pages - PDF
1 - 3 Feb 45
36th Infantry Division
141st Infantry Regiment
Operations in the attack on Herrlisheim, North of Strasbourg, Alsace
Rhineland Campaign
CD1
33 Pages - PDF
2 - 6 Feb 45
36th Infantry Division
143rd Infantry Regiment
Operations in the Capture and Defense
of Rohrwiller, East of Bischwiller, France
Rhineland Campaign
CD1
34 Pages - PDF
19 - 22 Mar 45
36th Infantry Division
141st Infantry Regiment
Operations at the Siegfried Line, Wissembourg-Dorrenbach Area
CD1
22 Pages - PDF
US Army WWII
Chronology
1941 - 1945
CD1
671 Pages - PDF
Medal of Honor
Recepients
CD 1
14 Citations - PDF
Sep 43 - May 45
Cassino
To The Alps
CD 1
690 Pages - PDF
9 Sep 43 - 4 Jun 44
Road To Rome
CD 1
66 Pages - PDF
9 Sep - 6 Oct 43
Salerno
CD 1
111 Pages - PDF
9 Sep 43 - 21 Jan 44
Naples - Foggia
CD 1
32 Pages - PDF
22 Jan - 24 May 44
Anzio
CD 1
28 Pages - PDF
22 Jan - 9 Sep 44
Rome-Arno
CD 1
31 Pages - PDF
15 Aug - 14 Sep 44
Southern France
Campaign
CD 1
32 Pages - PDF
16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45
Ardennes - Alsace
Campaign
CD 1
56 Pages - PDF
15 Sep 44 - 21 Mar 45
Rhineland
CD 1
36 Pages - PDF
22 Mar - 11 May 45
Central Europe
CD 1
36 Pages - PDF
19 Days
From Apennines
To the Alps
CD 1
90 Pages - PDF
Pictorial Record
War Against
Germany and Italy
CD1
458 Pages - PDF
Readers Guide
US Army
in World War II
CD 1
185 Pages - PDF
Research Guide
National Archives
Finding Information of
Personal Participation
in World War II Guide
CD 1
5 Pages - PDF
National Art Gallery
Guide to
Research Resources Relating to
World War II
CD 1
20 Pages - PDF
Form SF-180
Records Request Request for
Personnel Records
CD 1
3 Pages - PDF
Chart
Organization
US Army Division
CD 1
1 Page - PDF
Situation Maps
Europe
CD1
82 Maps: PDF
Film
The
United States Army
Presents
36th Infantry Division
CD 1
20 Mins - .mp4
Order of Battle
US ARMY
European Theater
of Operations
CD 1
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VE Day
Eisenhower Flyer
CD 2
1 Page - PDF
Rank
Insignia of Grade
CD 2
1 Page - PDF
Chart
Enlisted Men\'s
Uniform Insignias
CD 2
1 Page - PDF
Patch
Identification
Guide
CD 2
19 Pages - PDF
Mines - Booby Traps
Identification Guide
CD 2
80 Pages - PDF
Aircraft
Nose Art
CD 2
34 Pages - PDF
Aircraft
Recognition Guide
CD 2
17 Pages - PDF
Aircraft
Insignia Poster
CD 2
1 Page - PDF
US
World War II
Posters
CD 2
249 Pages - PDF
German
World War II
Posters
CD 2
75 Pages - PDF
Comic Book
Covers
CD 2
8 Pages - PDF
Song Lyrics
Army
HIT KIT
of Popular Songs
CD 2
6 Pages - PDF
Troopships
of World War II
CD 2
391 Pages - PDF
British
Grenadier Guards
1939 - 1945
Campaigns
BEF - 1939 - 1940
Tunisia 1942 - 1943
Italy - 1943 - 1945
Europe 1944 - 1945
CD 2
93 Pages - PDF
Film
The
BIG PICTURE
Documentary Film
\"Combat Infantryman\"
An Official
Television Report
to the Nation
From the
United States Army
CD 2
Film Info - PDF
Film: 27m14s - MP4
Newsreels
\"Allied Vise Tightens
On Rhineland\"
Universal Newsreel
7 Dec 44
Film: 7m17s
\"Nazis Surrender\"
Universal Newsreel
14 May 45
Film: 7m24s
\"The Year 1945\"
United Newsreel
Film: 8m34s
CD 2
Newsreels - Folder
1 Sep 39 - 10 May 42
Graphic History
Of The War
CD 2
76 Pages - PDF
1985
Veterans
Remerbrances
of World War II
40th Anniversary
of VE Day
CD 2
141 Pages - PDF
Brief History
of World War II
CD 2
55 Pages - PDF
APOs
Army
Postal Service
Addresses
CD 2
149 Pages - PDF
The files below are found on CD 3
Music
\"Singing Soldiers\"
Winners Second
All Army Soldier
Singing Contest
1954-55
19 Song LP Record
2 Album Set
CD 3
Info - PDF
Files - Folder
Music
What Do You
Do In The Infantry ?
American Military March
Semper Fidelis (Marines)
CD 3
Files - Folder
D-Day
Radio Broadcasts
13 - BBC/CBS/NBC
Normandy Invasion
Broadcasts
24 - CBS Invasion
1 Hour Broadcasts
CD 3
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Cartoons
11
BANNED
World War II
Cartoons
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more ...
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36th
Infantry Division
36th Infantry Division History
The 36th Infantry Division was originally activated as the 15th Division, a Army National Guard Division from Texas and Oklahoma. The designation was changed to the 36th Division in 1917, possibly in July. The unit was sent to Europe in July 1918 and conducted major operations in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. During World War I, the division suffered 2,584 casualties consisting of 466 killed in action, and 2,118 wounded in action. The unit was inactivated in June 1919.
The 36th was called up again for Active Federal Service on 25 November, 1940 at San Antonio, Texas. The Division loaded all of its equipment, Mustered its personnel, and departed for its Mobilization Station at Camp Bowie, Texas on 14 December. The 36th moved to Brownwood, Texas on 1 June 1941, where it participated in the VIII Corps Brownwood Maneuvers until 13 June. The Division then returned to Camp Bowie.
The Division then moved to Mansfield, Louisiana, and took part in both the August and September 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers. The Division then returned to Camp Bowie on 2 October where it was reorganized into a Triangular Infantry Division on 1 Feb 1942.
The Division then moved to Camp Blanding, Florida on 19 February, and participated in the Carolina Maneuvers between 9 July and15 August. The Division then was Staged at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts on 17 August for its Port Call.
The Division departed the New York Port of Embarkation on 2 April, 1943 for North Africa.
Combat Chronicle
The 36th Infantry Division landed in North Africa 13 April, 1943 and trained at Arzew and Rabat. It was Assigned to the VI Corps, Seventh Army, but attached to SOS, NATOUSA, for supply. The Division first saw action, 9 September when it landed by sea at Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno against intense German opposition. The Germans launched counterattacks on September 12-14, but the 36th repulsed them with the aid of air support and naval gunfire, and advanced slowly, securing the area from Agropoli to Altavilla.
After a brief rest the 36th returned to combat, 15 November. It captured Mount Maggiore, Mount Lungo, and the village of San Pietro despite strong enemy positions and severe winter weather. This grueling campaign was marked by futile attempts to establish a secure bridgehead across the Rapido River, 1 January to 8 February, 1944. After assisting the 34th Division in the attack on Cassino and fighting defensively along the Rapido River, the severely depleted 36th withdrew, 12 March for rest and rehabilitation. On 25 May the Division was sent by sea to the Anzio bridgehead to take part in Operation Diadem. It drove north to capture Velletri 1 June and entered Rome on the 5th. Pushing up from Rome, the 36th encountered sharp resistance at Magliano, but reached Piombino, 26 June before moving back to Paestum for rest and rehabilitation.
On 15 August, as part of the American 6th Army Group, the division made another amphibious assault landing, against light opposition in the Saint-Raphaël-Fréjus area of Southern France as part of Operation Dragoon. A rapid advance opened the Rhone River Valley. Montelimar fell 28 August and large German units were trapped. On 15 September the Division was attached to the French First Army. The 36th advanced to the Moselle River at Remiremont and the foothills of the Vosges. In a grinding offensive, the Division crossed the Meurthe River, breached the Ste. Marie Pass and burst into the Alsatian Plains. The enemy counterattacked 13 December but the 36th held the perimeter of the Colmar Pocket. On 15 December the Division was released from attachment to the First French Army, and returned to the control of VI Corps. The German Army counterattacks out of the Colmar Pocket were so fierce, that at times, the field artillery was forced to fire over open sights, at point blank range to stop them. On 20 December the Division resumed the attack, advancing northward along the Rhine River to Mannheim meeting heavy resistance at Haguenau, Oberhofen, and Wissembourg. In this action Company \"G\" 143rd Infantry Regiment gained a Presidential Unit Citation. On 27 December the Division was reassigned to XXI Corps, and the Division was pinched out and returned to Seventh Army Reserve on 30 December.
The Division was taken out of the line for the first time since it had landed in the south of France. On 3 January, 1945 the Division was reassigned to XV Corps. On 18 January the Division was reassigned to VI Corps. It returned to the line early March. The 36th was reassigned to the Seventh Army on 29 March, and moved to the Danube River on 22 April. It was reassigned to the XXI Corps on 27 April and attacked the \"National Redoubt\" at Künzelsau on the 30th. The 36th has been recognized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a liberating unit for their work securing the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp system. By 8 May the division was based in Kitzbuhel, Austria where it captured Field Marshall Gerd Von Runstedt, the commander of all German army forces on the Western front, and it’s final station was at Kufstein, Austria on 14 August, 1945.
After 400 days of combat, the 36th Infantry Division returned to the United States in December 1945. It was returned to the Texas Army National Guard on 15 December, 1945.
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36th
Infantry Division
36th Infantry Division
Campaigns of World War II
Naples-Foggia 9 Sep 43 - 21 Jan 44 Anzio 22 Jan - 24 May 44 Rome-Arno
22 Jan - 9 Sep 44
Southern France 15 Aug - 14 Sep 44 Rhineland 15 Sept 44 - 21 Mar 45 Ardennes-Alsace 16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45 Central Europe 22 Mar - 11 May 45
Naples - Foggia
9 Sep 43 - 21 Jan 44
After Allied bombardment of communications and airfields in Italy, Montgomery crossed the Strait of Messina on 3 September 1943 and started northward. Five days later Eisenhower announced that the Italian Government had surrendered. Fifth Army, under Clark, landed at Salerno on g September and managed to stay despite furious counterattacks. By 18 September the Germans were withdrawing northward. On 27 September Eighth Army occupied the important airfields of Foggia, and on I October Fifth Army took Naples. As the Allies pushed up the peninsula, the enemy slowed the advance and brought it to a halt at the Gustav Line.
Anzio
22 Jan - 24 May 44
The four months of this campaign would see some of the most savage fighting of World War II.
Following the successful Allied landings at Calabria, Taranto, and Salerno in early September 1943 and the unconditional surrender of Italy that same month, German forces had quickly disarmed their former allies and begun a slow, fighting withdrawal to the north. Defending two hastily prepared, fortified belts stretching from coast to coast, the Germans significantly slowed the Allied advance before settling into the Gustav Line, a third, more formidable and sophisticated defensive belt of interlocking positions on the high ground along the peninsula’s narrowest point.
During the four months of the Anzio Campaign the Allied VI Corps suffered over 29,200 combat casualties (4,400 killed, 18,000 wounded, 6,800 prisoners or missing) and 37,000 noncombat casualties. Two-thirds of these losses, amounting to 17 percent of VI Corps’ effective strength, were inflicted between the initial landings and the end of the German counteroffensive on 4 March. Of the combat casualties, 16,200 were Americans (2,800 killed, 11,000 wounded, 2,400 prisoners or missing) as were 26,000 of the Allied noncombat casualties. German combat losses, suffered wholly by the Fourteenth Army, were estimated at 27,500 (5,500 killed, 17,500 wounded, and 4,500 prisoners or missing), figures very similar to Allied losses.
The Anzio Campaign continues to be controversial, just as it was during its planning and implementation stages. The operation, according to U.S. Army Center of Military History historian Clayton D. Laurie, clearly failed in its immediate objectives of outflanking the Gustav Line, restoring mobility to the Italian campaign, and speeding the capture of Rome.
Yet the campaign did accomplish several goals. The presence of a significant Allied force behind the German main line of resistance, uncomfortably close to Rome, represented a constant threat. The Germans could not ignore Anzio and were forced into a response, thereby surrendering the initiative in Italy to the Allies. The 135,000 troops of the Fourteenth Army surrounding Anzio could not be moved elsewhere, nor could they be used to make the already formidable Gustav Line virtually impregnable.
Rome - Arno
22 Jan - 9 Sep 44
The Allied operations in Italy between January and September 1944 were essentially an infantryman’s war where the outcome was decided by countless bitterly fought small unit actions waged over some of Europe’s most difficult terrain under some of the worst weather conditions found anywhere during World War II.
Southern France
15 Aug - 14 Sep 44
The Allied invasion of southern France in the late summer of 1944, an operation first code-named ANVIL and later DRAGOON, marked the beginning of one of the most successful but controversial campaigns of World War II. However, because it fell both geographically and chronologically between two much larger Allied efforts in northern France and Italy, both its conduct and its contributions have been largely ignored. Planned originally as a simultaneous complement to OVERLORD, the cross-Channel attack on Normandy, ANVIL actually took place over two months later, on 15 August 1944, making it appear almost an afterthought to the main Allied offensive in northern Europe. Yet the success of ANVIL and the ensuing capture of the great southern French ports of Toulon and Marseille, together with the subsequent drive north up the Rhone River valley to Lyon and Dijon, were ultimately to provide critical support to the Normandy-based armies finally moving east toward the German border.
Rhineland
15 Sep 44 - 21 Mar 45
The Rhineland Campaign, although costly for the Allies, had clearly been ruinous for the Germans. The Germans suffered some 300,000 casualties and lost vast amounts of irreplaceable equipment. Hitler, having demanded the defense of all of the German homeland, enabled the Allies to destroy the Wehrmacht in the West between the Siegfried Line and the Rhine River. Now, the Third Reich lay virtually prostrate before Eisenhower’s massed armies.
Ardennes - Alsace
16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45
In August 1944, while his armies were being destroyed in Normandy, Hitler secretly put in motion actions to build a large reserve force, forofferding its use to bolster Germany’s beleaguered defenses. To provide the needed manpower, he trimmed existing military forces and conscripted youths, the unfit, and old men previously untouched for military service during World War II.
In September Hitler named the port of Antwerp, Belgium, as the objective. Selecting the Eifel region as a staging area, Hitler intended to mass twenty-five divisions for an attack through the thinly held Ardennes Forest area of southern Belgium and Luxembourg. Once the Meuse River was reached and crossed, these forces would swing northwest some 60 miles to envelop the port of Antwerp. The maneuver was designed to sever the already stretched Allied supply lines in the north and to encircle and destroy a third of the Allies’ ground forces. If successful, Hitler believed that the offensive could smash the Allied coalition, or at least greatly cripple its ground combat capabilities, leaving him free to focus on the Russians at his back door.
Central Europe
22 Mar - 11 May 45
By the beginning of the Central Europe Campaign of World War II, Allied victory in Europe was inevitable. Having gambled his future ability to defend Germany on the Ardennes offensive and lost, Hitler had no real strength left to stop the powerful Allied armies. Yet Hitler forced the Allies to fight, often bitterly, for final victory. Even when the hopelessness of the German situation became obvious to his most loyal subordinates, Hitler refused to admit defeat. Only when Soviet artillery was falling around his Berlin headquarters bunker did the German Fuehrer begin to perceive the final outcome of his megalomaniacal crusade.
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