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The 71st Infantry Division departed United States on 26 January 1945, arriving at Le Havre, France, on 6 February 1945, and training at Camp Old Gold with headquarters at Limesy. The division moved east, relieved the 100th Infantry Division at Ratswiller and saw its first action on 11 March 1945.
Onslow S. Rolfe (January 16, 1895 – January 29, 1985) was a career officer in the United States Army.He attained the rank of brigadier general during World War II as commander of the Mountain Training Center at Camp Hale, Colorado, and the 71st Infantry Division.
The 71st Infantry Regiment was a Regular infantry regiment in the United States Army active briefly during 1918-1919. The regiment was constituted 9 July 1918 in the Regular Army as the 71st Infantry and assigned to the 11th Infantry Division .
A partial listing of awards and commendations earned by former 71st Infantry men during combat appears in Robert S. Sutliffe's Seventy-First New York in the World War. it includes 11 US Army Distinguished Service Crosses, 137 divisional citations, as well as 8 British decorations, 7 French decorations, 4 Belgium decorations, and Montenegrin ...
71st Infantry Regiment is a reserve unit of Philippine Commonwealth Army under 71st Infantry Division activated and organized in Negros Island. It was transferred to Luzon island to bolster its defending forces during World War II.
71st Division may refer to any of a number of military divisions: . Infantry Division . 71st Division (1st Formation)(People's Republic of China), 1949–1950 71st Division (2nd Formation)(People's Republic of China), 1969–1985
71st Regiment may refer to: 71st Regiment of Foot (1758) , former British Army regiment, 1758–1763 71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders , former British Army regiment, raised for the American Revolution, 1775–1786
After his death at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in October 1861, it was renamed the 71st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. It was grouped with the 69th, 72nd, and 106th Pennsylvania regiments to form the famous Philadelphia Brigade. The 71st was assigned to the II Corps in time to participate in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.