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World War II
U.S. Army Divisions
Battle Honors and Fields of Service

ARMIES
1st Army - General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges

France

  3rd Army - General George Patton

France

5th Army - General Mark Clark

Italy

   

DIVISIONS
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.
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.
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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