Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized)—nicknamed the "Red Diamond", [1] or the "Red Devils" —was an infantry division of the United States Army that served in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, and with NATO and the U.S. Army III Corps. It was deactivated on 24 November 1992 and reflagged as the 2nd Armored Division.
In August 1995 the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment was reassigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, as part of the 1st Brigade "Lancers," 25th Infantry Division (Light). In 1996 the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry participated in the Advanced Warfighting Experiment, which culminated with a National Training Center rotation in March 1997.
The Division was originally established as the 3rd Field Division and redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division in 1960. [1]: 298 In the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt, the loyalist Colonel Nguyễn Văn Thiệu used the Division to storm into Saigon to save President Ngô Đình Diệm.
Following the advent of the armored division, infantry divisions became officially designated by "Infantry Division" (with the 25th Infantry Division being the first constituted by the adjutant general as such). All of the 1917–1941 (non-cavalry) divisions, with the exceptions of the 10th through 20th and 101st Divisions, would be ...
The 61st Infantry was relieved from the 5th Division on 15 August 1927 and assigned to the 8th Division, and reassigned to the 5th Division on 1 October 1933. The regiment conducted a mobilization test from 13–26 October 1935 at Lexington.
United States Fifth Army – (Lieutenant General Mark Clark) U.S. II Corps – (Major General Geoffrey Keyes) U.S. 34th Infantry Division – (Major General Charles L. Bolte) U.S. 88th Infantry Division – (Major General John E. Sloan) U.S. 91st Infantry Division – (Major General William G. Livesay)
The 5th Field Artillery Regiment was constituted as part of the Regular Army in January 1907. Individual battalions have lineages which date back further. Currently, it is a parent regiment under the U.S. Army Regimental System, with a single active battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, which is assigned to the 1st Division Artillery, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.
2nd Indian Cavalry Division, designated 5th Cavalry Division from November 1916 to March 1918 in France in World War I 5th Cavalry Division (India) , served from July 1918 in Palestine in World War I Armored divisions