-
- 5 Greenfield
et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 286-87.
-
- 6 On
19 August 1942 army corps were officially redesignated as corps.
-
- 7 Greenfield
et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 288-89, 291.
-
- 8 Ibid., pp. 274-75, 303-14; T/O
7-11, Infantry Regiment, 1 Apr 42; T/O 7-11, Infantry Regiment, 1 Mar 43.
The 1942 cannon company had six 75-mm. self-propelled howitzers and two
105-mm. self-propelled howitzers.
-
- 9 Greenfield
et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 304-05.
-
- 10 T/O
6-10, Division Artillery, Motorized, Infantry or Motorized Division, 1 Mar
43; Memo, G-3 for AGF, 6 Jun 42, sub: Organic Air Observation for Field
Artillery, WDGCT (Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, General Staff) 320.2 (2-5-42),
reprinted in Richard Tierney, The Army Aviation Story (Northport,
Ala.: Colonial Press, 1963), pp. 68-69; William E. Vance, "History
of Army Aviation," Aviation Digest 3 (Jun 1957): 7-12.
-
- 11 T/O
5-15, Engineer Battalion, Infantry Division, 1 Apr 42; T/O 5-15, Engineer
Battalion, 1 Mar 43; T/O 11-7, Signal Company, Infantry Division, 1 Apr
42; T/O 11-7, Signal Company, Infantry Division, 1 Mar 43; T/0 10-17, Quartermaster
Company, Infantry Division, 15 Sep 42; T/O 10-17, Quartermaster Company,
Infantry Division, 1 Mar 43; Greenfield et al., Organization of Ground
Combat Troops, pp. 309-11.
-
- 12 T/O
7-1, Headquarters, Infantry or Motorized Division, 1 Jun 42; T/O 7-1, Headquarters.
Infantry Division, 1 Mar 43; T/O 7-2, Headquarters Company, Infantry or
Motorized Division, I Jun 42; T/O 7-2, Headquarters Company, Infantry Division,
1 Mar 43: Greenfield et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp.
311-14.
-
- 13 Greenfield
et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 314-17.
-
- 14 Ibid.,
pp. 317-18; TOE 7, Infantry Division, 15 Jul 43. While preparing the 1943
tables, the War Department combined Tables of Organization and Tables of
Equipment into a single document, a Table of Organization and Equipment
(TOE).
-
- 15 Memo,
GNDCG (Commanding General, Army Ground Forces) for G-3, 28 Jan 43, sub:
Basis of Organization of Motorized Division, 320.2/19 (Armd.F) (S)-GNDCG,
Memo, Organization and Mobilization Branch, G-3, to Edwards, 18 Feb 43,
sub: Conference on Motorized Division, AG 320.2 (1-283), and Memo, WDGCT
for CofS, 24 Feb 43, sub: Reorganization of the Motorized Division, WDCGT
320 (2-243), AG 320.2 (2-2413), all RG 407, NARA.
-
- 16 Memo, WDGCT for CofS, 24 Feb
43, sub: Reorganization of the Motorized Division. and Ltr, TAG to CGs,
II Armored Corps and other addresses, 7 May 43, sub: Redesignation and Reorganization
of 6th, 8th, and 90th Motorized Divisions, both AG 320.2 (4-30-43) OB-IGNGCT-M,
AG Reference files. DAMH-HSO.
-
- 17 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 337-39; Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and XIII Corps,
30 Jul 43, sub: Redesignation and Reorganization of the 4th Motorized Division,
AG 322 (28 Jul 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, AG Reference files, DAMH-HSO.
-
- 18 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, p. 324.
-
- 19 Ibid., p. 322.
-
- 20 Memo, AGF for CofS, 7 Dec 42, sub:
Organization of Armored Units, 320.2 (Armd
- Force) (R) (11-6-42), and Memo,
WDGCT for CofS, 16 Jan 43, sub: Organizational of Armored Units, WDGCT 320
(12-7-42), both RG 407, NARA.
-
- 21 Memo, WDGCT for CofS, 16 Jan 43,
sub: Organization of Armored Units; Greenfield et
- al., Organization of Ground Combat
Troops, pp. 319-26.
-
- 22 Report of Proceedings of a Board
of Officers, 27 Mar 1943, Memo, AGE for
- Requirements Section, and CG, AGE,
undated, sub: Comments on Han-non Board report, both Ground AG Section,
Project Decimal file 1942-1943, AGF 319.1, North African Binder, RG 337,
NARA.
-
- 23 Memo, AGF for Requirements Section
and CG, AGF, undated, sub: Comments on
- Hannon Board report; TOE 17, Armored
Division, 15 Sep 43; Greenfield et al., Organization of Ground Combat
Troops, pp. 327-31.
-
- 24 TOE 17, Armored Division, 15 Sep
43; Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground
- Combat Troops, pp. 327-31.
-
- 25 TOE 17, Armored Division, 15 Sep
43; Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground
- Combat Troops, pp. 329-35;
J. M. Pittman, "Reorganization of the Armored Division," Military
Review 24 (April 1943): 44-47.
-
- 26 WD Cir 256, 1943.
-
- 27 Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and other
addresses, 20 Aug 43, sub: Utilization of Personnel, AG
- 320.2 (31 Jul 43) PE-A-M-C, Ltr,
TAG to CGs, AGF and XIII Corps, 30 Jul 43, sub: Redesignation and Reorganization
of 4th Motorized Division, Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and other addresses, 2 Aug
43, sub: Reorganization of Infantry Divisions, AG 322 (28 Jul 43) OB-IGNGCT-M,
Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and Third Army, 20 Sep 43, sub: Reorganization of the
38th Infantry Division, AG 322 (18 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, Ltr, TAG to CGs,
AGE and other addresses, 23 Sep 43, sub: Reorganization of the 93d Infantry
Division, AG 322 (22 Sep 43) OB1-GNGCT, Ltr, TAG to CinC, Southwest Pacific
Area and other addresses, 12 Oct 43, sub: Constitution of Units, AG 322
(6 Oct 43) OB-I-GNCGT-M, Ltr, TAG to CG, North African Theater of Operations,
29 Jul 43, sub: Reorganization of the 34th Infantry Division, AG 322 (26
Jul 43) OB-I-GNGCT, Ltr, TAG to CG, South Pacific Area, 20 Sep 43, sub:
Reorganization of the Americal Division, AG 322 (17 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT,
Ltr, TAG to CG U.S. Army Forces. Central Pacific Area, sub: Reorganization
of the 33d Infantry Division, AG 322 (30 Sep 43) OBI-GNGCT-M, Ltr, TAG to
AGE and other addresses, 15 Sep 43, sub: Reorganization of Armored Divisions,
AG 322 (10 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGE and Third Army, 31
Aug 43, sub: Reorganization of the 4th Armored Division, AG 322 (29 Aug
43) OB-I-GNGCTM, Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGE and Armored Command, 3 Sep 43, sub:
Reorganization of the 16th Armored Division, AG 322 (1 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M,
and Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and Armored Command, 3 Sep 43, sub: Reorganization
of the 20th Armored Division, AG 322 (1 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, all AG Reference
files, DAMH-HSO; Historical Data Cards, Divisions. The sixty infantry divisions
in the United States did not include the 89th Infantry Division, which was
reorganized as a light division on 1 August 1943 (see below).
-
- 28 GO 118, Fifth Army, 1944, 1st Armd
Div file, DAMH-HSO; Ltr, Devers to A.C. Gillem
- Jr., 29 Nov 43, Devers Papers, MHI.
-
- 29 Memo, AGF to TAG, 1 Apr 43, sub:
Reorganization of the Americal Division, 320.2/19
- (PTO) (S)-GNGCT/06414 (3-183), 320.2
4-1-43 (18), RG 407, NARA; Ltr, TAG to CG, South Pacific Area, 3 Apr 43,
sub: Reorganization of the Americal Division, AG 320.2 (4-1-43) OB-I-GNGCT,
AG Reference files, DAMN-HSO; Ltr, TAG to CG, South Pacific Area, 20 Sep
43, sub: Reorganization of Americal Division; Cronin, Under the Southern
Cross, pp. 104, 128; Department of the Army (DA) GO 73, 1948.
-
- 30 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 331-43.
-
- 31 Memo, AGF for G-3, 2 Mar 43,
sub: Light Division, 2 Mar 43, 322.2 (Div) (S), RG 407, NARA; TOE 72 (Trk)
and (Pack), Light Division, 1 Jul 43, 89th and 71st Inf Div files, DAM HHSO.
-
- 32 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 3456; Fred Clinger, Arthur Johnson, and
Vincent Masel, History of the 71st Infantry Division (Augsburg, Germany:
E. Kieser KG, 1946), pp. 1-2; History of the 10th Light Division, AGF
Study 28 (Washington, D.C.: Historical Section, AGF, 1946), p. 1; Maynard
L. Diamond, Willard E. Simms, Edward B. Baldinger, and Meyer Siegelbaum,
89th Infantry Division, 1942-1945 (Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal
Press, 1946), pp. 47-48. Also see the 10th, 71st, and 89th Infantry Divisions
files in DAMH-HSO.
-
- 33 Diamond et al., 89th Infantry
Division, p. 61.
-
- 34 Ibid., pp. 60-61; Greenfield
et al., Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 3478; Ltr, TAG
to CGs, Second Army and other addresses, 16 May 44, sub: Redesignation and
Reorganization of 71st Light Division, AG 322 (12 May 44) OB-I GNGCT-M,
71st Inf Div, and Ltr, TAG to CGs, Fourth Army and other addresses, 16 May
44, sub: Redesignation and Reorganization of the 89th Light Division, AG
322 (12 May 44) OB-I-GNGCT-M, 89th Inf Div, both AG Reference files, DAMH-HSO.
-
- 35 Training in Mountain and Winter
Warfare, AGF Study No. 23 (Washington, D.C.: Historical Section, AGF,
1946), pp. 11-12; TOE 70, Mountain Division, 4 Nov 44; Ltr, TAG to CG, Fourth
Army, 1 Nov 44, sub: Reorganization and Redesignation of the 10th Light
Division, AG 322 (25 Oct 44) OB-I-GNGCT, 10th Mt Div file, DAMH-HSO; Interview,
author with Walter L. Galson, National Association of the 10th Mountain
Division, Washington, D.C., 28 Nov 79, author's files.
-
- 36 Historical Data Cards for the
42d, 63d, 65th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 75th, and 106th Infantry Divisions; the
16th and 20th Armored Divisions; and the l lth, 13th, and 17th Airborne
Divisions and unit files for each division in DAMH-HSO. In addition to the
divisions listed, TAG also placed the 61st, 62d, 67th, 68th, 72d, 73d, and
74th Infantry Divisions and the 18th, 19th, 21st, and 22d Armored Divisions
on the rolls, but they were never organized during the war. The 15th Airborne
Division was also placed on the rolls but never organized.
-
- 37 "The `Rainbow Division',"
National Guardsman 3 (Aug 49): 18-19; Ltr, Harry J. Collins to George
C. Marshall, 19 Jun 43, Marshall Papers.
-
- 38 Ltr, TAG to CG, Airborne Command,
1 Jul 44, sub: Organization of HHC, 1st and 2d Airborne Infantry Brigades,
AG 322 (29 Jun 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, and Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and Airborne Command,
sub: Disbandment of HHC, 1st Airborne Infantry Brigade, 23 Nov 43, AG 322
(21 Nov 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, both 1st Bde, 1st Inf Div, file, DAMN-HSO; Ltr,
TAG to Chief, Historical Section, AWC, 21 Feb 45, sub: Organizational History,
AG 314.7 OB-I, and Unit Diary, Second Airborne Infantry Brigade, 1943-1944,
both 2d Bde, 1st Inf Div file, DAMN-HSO.
-
- 39 Ltr, AGF to CGs, Third Army and
IX Corps, 12 Sep 42, sub: Activation of Elements of the 1st Cavalry Division,
322.13/1 (1st Cav Div) (R)-GNGNT (9-122), 1st Cav Div file, and Ltr, TAG
to CGs, Services of Supply and other addresses, 23 Nov 42, sub: Activation
of 2d Cavalry Division, AG 320.2 (11-212) OB-I-GN-M, 2d Cav Div file, both
DAMH-HSO.
-
- 40 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, p. 336; Ltr, TAG to CG, Third Army, 2 Mar 43,
sub: Reorganization of 1st Cavalry Division, AG 320.2 (2-283) OB-IGNGCT-M,
1st Cav Div file, DAMN-HSO; James W. Hinds, Second Cavalry Division (no
publisher, 1987), pp. 60-61.
-
- 41 Ltr, TAG to CinC, Southwest Pacific
Area, 17 Sep 43, sub: Reorganization of Units in Southwest Pacific Area,
AG 322 (14 Sep 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, and Ltr, TAG to CinC, Southwest Pacific
Area, 13 Nov 43, sub: Redesignation and Reorganization of 1st Cavalry Division,
AG 322 (9 Nov 43) OB-I-GNGCT-M, both AG Reference files, DAMN-HSO; Wright,
The 1st Cavalry Division in World War II, p. 240.
-
- 42 MacGregor, Integration of the
Armed Forces, p. 33; Ltr, TAG to CGs, AGF and North African Theater of
Operations, 11 Apr 44, sub: Inactivation and Disbandment of Units, AG 322
(8 Apr 44) OB-I-GNGCT-M, AG file, DAMH-HSO; Hinds, Second Cavalry Division,
pp. 64-67: Ltr, TAB to CGs, Fourth Army and Southern Defense Command,
24 Apr 44, sub: Assignment, Reorganization and Redesignation of Certain Cavalry
Units, AG 322 (22 Apr 44) OB-I-GNGCTM, AG Reference files, DAMN-HSO; Mary
Lee Stubbs and Stanley Russell Connor, ArmorCavalry Part II: Army National
Guard, Army Lineage Series (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1972), pp. 167-87.
-
- 43 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, table, "Ground Forces in the Army, Dec
41-Apr 45," and pp. 163-81; Maurice Matloff, "The 90-Division
Gamble," Command Decisions, Kent R. Greenfield, ed. (Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1960), pp. 365- 81.
-
- 44 Matloff, "The 90-Division
Gamble," p. 374.
-
- 45 Robert W. Coakley and Richard
M. Leighton, Global Logistics and Strategy: 1943-1945, United States
Army in World War II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968),
p. 246-47; Palmer et al., Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops,
pp. 489-92.
-
- 46 Ltr, TAG to CGs, Second Army
and Airborne Command, 4 Feb 43, sub: Changes in Assignment of Units to the
82d Airborne Division and Airborne Command, AG 320.2 (2-3-43) OB-I-GN-M,
82d Abn Div file, DAMN-HSO; James E. Mrazek, The Glider War (London:
Robert Hale and Company, 1975), p. 108.
-
- 47 James M. Gavin, On to Berlin,
pp. 49-50.
-
- 48 Memo, AGF for CofS, 17 Dec 43,
sub: Change in T/O, Airborne Division, 320.3/75 (S)GNGCT, and Memo, G- 3
for ACofS, 17 Dec 43, same subject, WDGCT 320.2, both Correspondence, Matthew
Ridgway in Marshall Papers.
-
- 49 Ltr, Ridgway to Marshall, 1 Nov
44, Ltr, Ridgway to Marshall, 4 Dec 44, Summary Sheet (SS), G-3 for CofS,
8 Nov 44, sub: Reorganization of the Airborne Division, all in Matthew Ridgway,
Marshall Papers; Maxwell D. Taylor, Swords and Plowshares (New York:
W. W. Norton and Co., 1972), pp. 97-98; TOE 71, Airborne Division, 16 Dec
44; cited material from Ltr, Marshall to Ridgway, 18 Dec 44, Marshall Papers.
-
- 50 Memo, G-3 for CofS, 15 Dec 44,
sub: Reorganization of the Airborne Division, WDGCT 322 (15 Dec 44), RG
407, NARA; TOE 71, Airborne Division, 16 Dec 44.
-
- 51 SS, G-3 for DCofS, 16 Dec 44,
sub: Reorganization of Airborne Divisions, 322 (16 Dec 44), RG 407, NARA;
Ltr, TAG to CG US Forces in the European Theater of Operations (ETO), 16
Jan 45, sub: Reorganization of the 101st Airborne Division, AG 322 (8 Jan
45) OB-IGNGCT-M, Ltr, TAG to CG, US Forces in the ETO, 22 Feb 45, sub: Reorganization
of the 13th, 17th and 82d Airborne Divisions, AG 322 (18 Feb 45) OB-I-GNGCT-M,
and Ltr, TAG to CinC, USAF, Pacific, 4 Jul 45, sub: Reorganization and Redesignation
of Certain Airborne Units, AG 322 (30 Jun 45), OB-I-GNGCT-M, all AG Reference
files, DAMH-HSO; Edward M. Flanagan, The Angels: A History of the Ilth
Airborne Division 1943-1946 (Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal Press,
1948), pp. 1-2; also see 11th, 13th, 17th, 82d, and 101st Abn Divs files,
DAM HHSO.
-
- 52 TOE 6-160-1, Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery (HHB), Division Artillery, Armored Division, 12 Feb
44; TOE 7, Infantry Division, and TOE 17, Armored Division, 24 Jan 45.
-
- 53 General Board, ETO, Report 17,
Types of Divisions-Postwar Army, pp. 8- 9, 1945, DAMH-Library.
-
- 54 The armored group headquarters
and headquarters company was organized almost identical to the headquarters
and headquarters company of a combat command in an armored division. It
contained the necessary staff, communication, and transportation to enable
it to function as the headquarters of a task force comparable in size to
a combat command.
-
- 55 General Board, ETO, Report 17,
Types of Divisions, pp. 12-13.
-
- 56 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 454-55.
-
- 57 Recoilless rifles had been developed
during the war, and the weapons combined the effect of artillery with the
mobility of hand-carried arms by using high velocity gas ports to counteract
recoil, as opposed to absorption of recoil by springs and/or oil flowing
through various orifices.
-
- 58 Greenfield et al., Organization
of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 456- 75.
-
- 59 Ibid., pp. 476-77.
-
- 60 Ibid., pp. 477-83; TOE
7, Infantry Division, 1 Jun 45.
-
- 61 Hewes, From Root to McNamara,
p. 112.
-
- 62 WD Readjustment Regulations,
1-1, 12 Feb 1945.
-
- 63 Coakley and Leighton, Global
Logistics and Strategy, pp. 584-85.
-
- 64 "Redeployment," Ms,
Occupation Forces in Europe series, pp. 82-84, 89, and Bell I. Wiley,
"AGF on the Eve of Demobilization Period," Ms, History of AGF
during the Demobilization Period, chart, "Arrival of Major Ground Units
for Redeployment to LO September 1945," both DAMH-HSR.
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