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The 44th Infantry Division was a division of the United States Army National Guard from October 1920 to November 1945, when it was inactivated after Federal Service during World War II. A second 44th Infantry Division existed in the Illinois Army National Guard from 1946 until October 1954, when that division was disbanded after federal service ...
"US 44th Infantry Division - Nordwind". [ Battle History of the United States 44th Infantry Division, ETO 1944 - 1945]. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06.
44th Reserve Division (German Empire) 44th Landwehr Division (German Empire) 44th Infantry Division (Germany) (World War II) 44th Infantry Division Cremona (Kingdom of Italy) 44th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 44th Infantry Division (Poland) 44th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), a unit of the Red Army reformed during World War II
In a forest on the Saar front in the area of the 44th Division, soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, are cleaning their weapons after returning from a mission. The 324th Infantry returned to the United States on the USS Martha Washington and was demobilized on 17 June 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts.
The 44th Infantry Division was part of the IL ARNG from 1945/46. It was inducted into Federal Service during the Korean War but on its release the Governor of Illinois declined to support it, citing budgetary considerations. It was thus deactivated on its release from Federal Service in December 1954. [1]
Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Vineland as an element of the 44th Infantry Division. Redesignated 7 January 1941 as the 2nd Battalion, 157th Field artillery. Reorginazed and redesignated as the 157th Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 44th Infantry Division. 17 February 1942.
The battalion then led the attack of the 44th Infantry Division, which seized the city of Mannheim, an industrial, and transportation center. In April and May 1945, with the war fast approaching an end, the 772nd Tank Battalion moved rapidly across Germany into Austria, again leading the 44th Infantry Division.
The 44th Infantry Division had lost 121 killed, 270 wounded and 44 missing; it took 300 officers and 25,000 men as prisoners and marched 540 km, in the campaign against Poland a daily average of 29 km. [9] After the end of the Polish campaign, the division returned to its home station until it was moved to central Germany as OKH reserve, and ...