* Ultimate Soldier *
World
War II
U.S.
Army Divisions
Battle
Honors and Fields of Service
1st
Army - General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges France |
3rd
Army - General George Patton France |
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5th
Army - General Mark Clark Italy |
1st Infantry Division - "The First." Tunisia, Sicily, Omaha Beach, the Bulge, Germany. | 2nd Infantry Division - "Indian Head." Normandy, the Bulge, Leipzig. | |
3rd
Infantry Division - "The Marne." Sicily, Anzio
Landing, Monte Cassino, Operation Dragoon, Colmar Pocket,
Salzburg. |
4th Infantry Division -
"Ivy." Normandy, Cherbourg, Bastogne. |
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8th Infantry Division - "Golden Arrow." Brittany, Düren, Köln. | 9th Infantry Division - "Varsity." El Guetter, Bizerte, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Bulge, German Occupation. | |
25th Infantry - "Tropic Lightning." Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Phillipines. | 26th Infantry Division - "Yankee." The Bulge, Siegfried Line. | |
28th Infantry Division - "Keystone." Paris, the Bulge, Hurtgen Forest, Colmar Pocket. | 29th Infantry Division - "Blue and Gray." Omaha Beach, St. Lô, Siegfried Line, Aachen. | |
30th Infantry Division - "Old Hickory." St.Lo, the Bulge, Aachen, Siegfried Line, the Rhine. | 35th Infantry Division - "Santa Fe." St.Lo, Metz, Nancy, the Bulge, Ruhr. | |
75th Infantry Division - Battle of the Bulge, Westphalen | 82nd
Airborne Division - "All American." Sicily,
Normandy, Nijmegen, Battle of the Bulge. |
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83rd Infantry Division - "Thunderbolt." St. Malo, Roer, Ardennes. | 90th Infantry Division - "Tough 'Ombres." Normandy, Metz, Czechoslavakia. | |
101st
Airborne Division - "Screaming Eagle."
Normandy, Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. |
Rangers - Specially trained
battalions fought in Italy and France. On D-Day they took
out the German guns at Pointe du Hoc. |
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