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Researching World War II

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2nd  Infantry Division "Second to None" "Indian Head" "Warrior Division"  
 
 

9th Infantry "The Manchus" " Keep Up The Fire!" Regiment

History
 

23rd Infantry " Tomahawks" "We Serve" Regiment

History
 

38th Infantry " Rock of the Marne" Regiment

History
 
     
Order  of Battle
9th  Infantry Regiment 23rd Infantry Regiment 38th Infantry Regiment
 

2nd Reconnaissance  Troop (Mechanized) 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion 2nd Medical Battalion 15th Field Artillery Battalion  (105mm Howitzer) 37th Field Artillery Battalion  (105mm Howitzer) 38th Field Artillery Battalion  (105mm Howitzer) 12th Field Artillery Battalion  (155mm Howitzer) 702nd Ordnance Light Maintenance  Company 2nd Quartermaster Company 2nd Signal Company Military Police Platoon Headquarters Company Band


Casualties     
 

Killed  in Action : 3031 Wounded in Action  : 12758 Died of Wounds  : 457

Days  of Combat : 303


Commanders  
MG  John C. H. Lee Nov 6, 1941 – May 8,  1942 MG Walter M. Robertson  May 9, 1942 – June 1945 BG  W. K. Harrison June – Sept 1945 MG Edward M. Almond  Sep 1945 – June 1946 MG Paul W. Kendall June 1946 – May 24,  1948 MG Harry J. Collins June 30, 1948 –

Campaigns          
Normandy 6  Jun - 24 Jul 1944
Northern  France 25  Jul - 14 Sep 1944
Rhineland 15  Sep 1944 - 21 Mar 1945
Ardennes-Alsace 16  Dec 1944 - 25 Jan 1945
Central  Europe 22  Mar - 11 May 1945

Medals    
 

Medal of  Honor - 6 Silver Star - 741 Bronze Star Medal - 5530 Distinguished Service Cross  - 34 Distinguished Service Medal  - 1 Legions of Merit - 25 Soldier's Medal - 14 Air Medal - 89

 
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1943  
Oct- Training in Northern  Ireland and Wales to Jun 44.
1944  
7  Jun-

Crossed the  channel to land on Omaha Beach  near St. Laurent-sur-Mer on  D plus 1.

10  Jun- Attacking across  the Aure River, the Division liberated  Trevieres and proceeded to assault  and secure Hill 192, the key enemy  strongpoint on the road to St.  Lô.
11  Jul- The Division  went on the defensive until July  26.
15  Aug- Exploiting the  St. Lô break-through, the  2nd Division advanced across the  Vire to take Tinchebray.
18  Sep- The Division  moved west to join the battle  for Brest, the heavily defended  fortress surrendering Sep 18,  1944 after a 39-day contest.
19  Sep- The Division  took a brief rest till 26 Sep.
29  Sep-

Moved to  defensive positions at St. Vith,  Belgium.

3  Oct- The division  entered Germany.
11  Dec- The Second was  ordered to attack and seize the  Roer River dams. The German Ardennes  offensive in mid-December forced  the Division to withdraw to defensive  positions near Elsenborn, where  the German drive was halted.
1945  
Feb-  The Division  attacked, recapturing lost ground.
4  Mar- Seized Gemund.
9  Mar- Reached the Rhine
10-11  Mar- Advanced south  to take Breisig and to guard the  Remagen bridge.
21  Mar- The Division  crossed the Rhine and advanced  to Hadamar and Limburg an der  Lahn.
28  Mar- Relieved elements  of the 9th Armored Division.
6-7  Apr- Crossed the  Weser at Veckerhagen.
8  Apr- Captured Göttingen.
14  Apr - Established  a bridgehead across the Saale 
15  Apr - Seized Merseburg  on April 15.
Apr  18- Division took  Leipzig, mopped up in the area,  and outposted the Mulde River.
24  Apr- Elements which  had crossed the river were withdrawn.
1  May- Relieved on the  Mulde, the 2nd moved 200 miles  to positions along the German-Czech  border near Schonsee and Waldmünchen,  where 2 ID relieved the 97th and  99th ID's on 3 May.
4  May- The division  crossed over to Czechoslovakia  and attacked in the general direction  of Pilsen, attacking that city  on VE Day.
20  Jul- Division returned  to the New York Port Of Embarkation.
2  Jul- Arrived at Camp  Swift at Bastrop, Texas to start  a training schedule to prepare  them to participate in the scheduled  invasion of Japan, but they were  still at Camp Swift on VJ Day. 
1946  
28  Mar- Moved to the  Staging Area at Camp Stoneman  at Pittsburg, California but the  move eastward was canceled and  they received orders to move to  Fort Lewis at Tacoma, Washington. 
15  Apr- Arrived at Fort  Lewis which became their Home  Station. From their Fort Lewis  base, they conducted Arctic, air  transportability, amphibious and  maneuver training.
 
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2nd  Infantry Division in World War II CD  1 Open all files from  the folders on the CDs Install Adobe  Acrobat PDF Reader from CD 1
                               
  The  files below are found on CD 1
  12-16 Jun 44 2nd Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Regiment 3rd Battalion Operations in the Attack on Hill 192, West of Berigny, France Normandy Campaign CD 1 35 Pages - PDF   11-12 Jul 44 2nd Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Regiment Operations in the Attack on Hill 192, East of St. Lo, France Normandy Campaign CD 1 31 Pages - PDF   13-16 Dec 44 2nd Infantry Division 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion Operations in the Attack on Pillbox Sector Wehlerscheid, Germany Rhineland Campaign CD 1 33 Pages - PDF   17-20 Dec 44 2nd Infantry Division 38th Infantry Regiment Company M Operations in the Vicinity of Krinkelt, Belgium Adrennes - Alsace Campaign CD 1 34 Pages - PDF
15-20 Jan 45 2nd Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Regiment Company G Operations at Ondenva, Belgium Adrennes - Alsace Campaign CD 1 22 Pages - PDF   17-19 Jan 45 2nd Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Regiment Company L Operations in the Ondenval Iveldingen  Pass, Belgium Adrennes - Alsace Campaign CD 1 30 Pages - PDF   2nd  Infantry Division Conneticut Men1945 Publication Division History Roster and stories of Conneticut CD 1 16 Pages - PDF 2nd Infantry Division 6 Medal of Honor Citations Infantry Division Citations of WWII 1943 - 1945 CD 1 7 Pages - PDF
Last Offensive CD 1 554 Pages - PDF 16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45 Ardennes - Alsace Campaign CD 1 56 Pages - PDF 6 Jun - 24 Jul 44 Normandy Campaign CD 1 51 Pages - PDF War Against Germany and Mediterranian and Ajacent Areas Pictorial Record CD 1 459 Pages - PDF
Order of Battle US ARMY European Theater of Operations CD 1 618 Pages - PDF World War II Situation Maps Europe CD 1 83 Pages - PDF Chart Organization USArmy Regiment CD 1 1 Page - PDF Map United States Map USArmy Regions CD 1 1 Page - PDF

World War II Newspaper Headlines CD 1 507 Pages - PDF

Magazine Covers CD 1 74 Pages - PDF

Film The BIG PICTURE Documentary Film "Combat Infantryman" An Official Television Report to the Nation From the United States Army CD 1 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 1 Newsreels - Folder

The  files below are found on CD 2
8 Nov - 11 Nov 42 Algeria–French Morocco CD 2 32 Pages - PDF Jul 43 Sicily and the Surrender of Italy CD 2 630 Pages - PDF 9 Jul - 17 Aug 43 Sicily Campaign CD 2 28 Pages - PDF 6 Jun - 1 Jul 44 Cross-Channel Attack CD 2 538 Pages - PDF
1 Jul - 11 Sep 44 Breakout and Pursuit CD 2 771 Pages - PDF 25 Jul - 14 Sep 44 Northern France CD 2 32 Pages - PDF 15 Sep 44 - 21 Mar 45 Rhineland CD 2 36 Pages - PDF 22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe CD 2 36 Pages - PDF
Long Road To Victory CD 2 20 Pages - PDF US Air Force Combat Chronology 1941 - 1945 CD 2 743 Pages - PDF "Fighting Divisions" Army Divisions History CD 2 241 Pages - PDF   Supreme Command European Theater Operations CD 2 631 Pages - PDF
Brief History of World War II CD 2 55 Pages - PDF APOs Army Postal Service Addresses Alphabetical Listings CD 2 149 Pages - PDF Form SF180 Records Request Request for Personnel Records CD 2 3 Pages - PDF Research Guide National Archives Finding Information of Personal Participation in World War II Guide CD 2 5 Pages - PDF
Mines - Booby Traps Identification Guide CD 2 42 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 2 250 Pages - PDF

German World War II Posters CD 2 75 Pages - PDF

Rank Insignia of Grade CD 2 1 Page - PDF Patch Identification Guide CD 2 19 Pages - PDF
Chart Enlisted Men's Uniform Insignias CD 2 1 Page - PDF Song Lyrics Army HIT KIT of Popular Songs CD 2 6 Pages - PDF VE Day Eisenhower Flyer CD 2 1 Page - PDF Comic Book Covers CD 2 8 Pages - PDF
 
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2nd  Infantry Division "Second to None" "Indian Head" "Warrior Division"
2nd Infantry Division History  

After training in Northern Ireland and Wales from October 1943  to June 1944, the 2nd Infantry  Division crossed the channel to  land on Omaha Beach on D plus  1, June 7, 1944, near St. Laurent-sur-Mer.  Attacking across the Aure River,  the Division liberated Trevieres,  June 10, and proceeded to assault  and secure Hill 192, the key enemy  strongpoint on the road to St.  Lô. With the hill taken July 11,  1944, the Division went on the  defensive until July 26. Exploiting  the St. Lô break-through, the  2nd Division advanced across the  Vire to take Tinchebray August  15, 1944. The Division then moved  west to join the battle for Brest,  the heavily defended fortress  surrendering September 18, 1944  after a 39-day contest.

The Division took  a brief rest September 19–September  26 before moving to defensive  positions at St. Vith, Belgium  on September 29, 1944. The division  entered Germany on October 3,  1944, and the Second was ordered,  on December 11, 1944, to attack  and seize the Roer River dams.  The German Ardennes offensive  in mid-December forced the Division  to withdraw to defensive positions  near Elsenborn, where the German  drive was halted. In February  1945 the Division attacked, recapturing  lost ground, and seized Gemund,  March 4. Reaching the Rhine March  9, the 2ID advanced south to take  Breisig, March 10–11, and  to guard the Remagen bridge, March  12–March 20.

The Division crossed  the Rhine March 21 and advanced  to Hadamar and Limburg an der  Lahn, relieving elements of the  9th Armored Division, March 28.  Advancing rapidly in the wake  of the 9th Armored, the 2nd Infantry  Division crossed the Weser at  Veckerhagen, April 6–April  7, captured Göttingen April 8,  established a bridgehead across  the Saale, April 14, seizing Merseburg  on April 15. On April 18 the Division  took Leipzig, mopped up in the  area, and outposted the Mulde  River; elements which had crossed  the river were withdrawn April  24. Relieved on the Mulde, the  2nd moved 200 miles, May 1–May  3, to positions along the German-Czech  border near Schonsee and Waldmünchen,  where 2 ID relieved the 97th and  99th ID's. The division crossed  over to Czechoslovakia on May  4, 1945, and attacked in the general  direction of Pilsen, attacking  that city on VE Day.

2nd Infantry Division  returned to the New York Port  Of Embarkation on July 20, 1945,  and arrived at Camp Swift at Bastrop,  Texas on July 22, 1945. They started  a training schedule to prepare  them to participate in the scheduled  invasion of Japan, but they were  still at Camp Swift on VJ Day.  They then moved to the Staging  Area at Camp Stoneman at Pittsburg,  California on March 28, 1946,  but the move eastward was canceled,  and they received orders to move  to Fort Lewis at Tacoma, Washington.  They arrived at Fort Lewis on  April 15, 1946, which became their  Home Station. From their Fort  Lewis base, they conducted Arctic,  air transportability, amphibious,  and maneuver training.

 
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9th  Infantry " Keep Up  The Fire!"  Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment History  

After breaking  out from the beachhead at Normandy,  the 9th waged an 18 hour engagement  during the Battle of the Bulge.  With the Allied line established,  the 9th spearheaded a drive  toward the Siegfried Line, crossed  the Rhine in March 1945 and  advanced rapidly through Saxony  into Czechoslovakia, ending  the war with many decorations  including three Presidential  Unit Citations.

Stationed at  Ft. Sam Houstin Tex as part  of 2nd Division.

24 Nov 42 -  Moved to Cp McCoy Wis.

27 Sep 43 -  Staged at Cp. Shanks N.Y.

8 Oct 43 -  Departed New York P/E.

19 Oct 43- Arrived  England.

12 June 44  - Landed in France.

3 Oct 44 -  Crossed into Belgium and entered  Germany same date.

19 Jul 45 -  Arrived Boston P/E.

23 Jul 45 -  Moved to Cp Swift Tex.

29 Mar 46 -  Transferred to Cp. Stoneman  Cal.

16 Apr 46 -  Transferred to Ft. Lewis Wash  where active through 1946.

 
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23rd  Infantry " Tomahawks" "We Serve" Regiment

23rd Infantry Regiment  History   

Stationed at  Ft. Sam Houstin Tex as part  of 2nd Division.

24 Nov 42 -  Moved on to Cp McCoy Wis..

29 Sep 43 -  Staged at Cp. Shanks N.Y.

8 Oct 43 -  Departed New York P/E.

18 Oct 43 -  Arrived England 18 Oct 43.

12 June 44 -  Landed in France.

3 Oct 44 - Crossed  into Belgium and entered Germany  same date.

16-18 Dec 44  - Attached 99th Infantry Division.

13-24 Jan 45  - Attached 1st Infantry Division.

20 Jul 45 -  Returned New York.

25 Jul 45 -  Moved to Cp. Swift, Tex.

30 Mar 46 -  Transferred to Cp. Stoneman,  Cal.

16 Apr 46 -  Transferred to Ft. Lewis Wash.  where active thru 1946.

 
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38th  Infantry "Rock  of the Marne" Regiment
38th  Infantry Regiment History  

16  Oct 39 - Stationed at Ft. Douglas  Utah as part of the 3rd Division  until assigned to 2nd Division. 9 Nov 39 - Moved to Cp. Bullis  Tex where participated in maneuvers.

27 Jan 40 - Moved  to Ft. Sam Houstin where participated  in maneuvers.

24 Nov 42 - Transferred  to Cp McCoy.

30 Sep 43 - Staged  at Cp. Shanks N.Y. 30 Sep 43.

8 Oct 43 - Departed  New York P/E.

19 Oct 43 - Arrived  England.

12 Jan 44 - Landed  in France.

21-30 Aug 44 -  Attached VIII Corps.

3 Oct 44 - Crossed  into Belgium and entered Germany  same date.

8 Mar 45 - Attached  78th Infantry Division.

25 Mar-5 Apr 45  - Attached 9th Armored Division.

5 May 45 - Crossed  into Czechoslovakia.

20 Jul 45 - Returned  to New York P/E.

25 Jul 45 - Moved  to Cp. Swift Texas.

28 Apr 46 - Transferred  to Cp. Carson Coloado where active  through 1946.

 
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2nd  Infantry Division Campaigns
 
Campaigns of World War II          
Normandy 6  Jun - 24 Jul 1944
Northern  France 25  Jul - 14 Sep 1944
Rhineland 15  Sep 1944 - 21 Mar 1945
Ardennes-Alsace 16  Dec 1944 - 25 Jan 1945
Central  Europe 22  Mar - 11 May 1945

Normandy  Campaign 6 – 24 July 1944

A great invasion  force stood off the Normandy coast  of France as dawn broke on 6 June  1944: 9 battleships, 23 cruisers,  104 destroyers, and 71 large landing  craft of various descriptions  as well as troop transports, mine  sweepers, and merchantmen—in  all, nearly 5,000 ships of every  type, the largest armada ever  assembled. The naval bombardment  that began at 0550 that morning  detonated large minefields along  the shoreline and destroyed a  number of the enemy’s defensive  positions. To one correspondent,  reporting from the deck of the  cruiser HMS Hillary, it sounded  like “the rhythmic beating  of a gigantic drum” all  along the coast. In the hours  following the bombardment, more  than 100,000 fighting men swept  ashore to begin one of the epic  assaults of history, a “mighty  endeavor,” as President  Franklin D. Roosevelt described  it to the American people, “to  preserve. . . our civilization  and to set free a suffering humanity.”


 

Northern  France Campaign 25 July – 14 September 1944

As July 1944 entered  its final week, Allied forces  in Normandy faced, at least on  the surface, a most discouraging  situation. In the east, near Caen,  the British and Canadians were  making little progress against  fierce German resistance. In the  west, American troops were bogged  down in the Norman hedgerows.  These massive, square walls of  earth, five feet high and topped  by hedges, had been used by local  farmers over the centuries to  divide their fields and protect  their crops and cattle from strong  ocean winds. The Germans had turned  these embankments into fortresses,  canalizing the American advance  into narrow channels, which were  easily covered by antitank weapons  and machine guns. The stubborn  defenders were also aided by some  of the worst weather seen in Normandy  since the turn of the century,  as incessant downpours turned  country lanes into rivers of mud.  By 25 July, the size of the Allied  beachhead had not even come close  to the dimensions that pre–D-day  planners had anticipated, and  the slow progress revived fears  in the Allied camp of a return  to the static warfare of World  War I. Few would have believed  that, in the space of a month  and a half, Allied armies would  stand triumphant at the German  border.


 

Rhineland  Campaign 15 September 1944 – 21 March  1945

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 Campaign 16 December 1944 – 25 January  1945

In August 1944,  while his armies were being destroyed  in Normandy, Hitler secretly put  in motion actions to build a large  reserve force, forbidding 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 Campaign 22 March – 11 May 1945

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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