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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 inactivated on 24 November 1992 and reflagged as the 2nd Armored Division.
The 5th Infantry Regiment was created by an Act of Congress of 3 March 1815, [2] which reduced the Regular Army from the 46 infantry and 4 rifle regiments it fielded in the War of 1812 to a peacetime establishment of 8 infantry regiments (reduced to 7 in 1821). The Army's current regimental numbering system dates from this act.
This list of United States Army divisions is divided into three eras: 1911–1917, 1917–1941, and 1941–present. These eras represent the major evolutions of army division structure (there have been several minor changes during these times). The 1911–1917 era lists divisions raised during the Army's first attempts at modernizing the ...
202d Field Artillery Battalion (attached 2 August 1944 – 25 August 1944) The division's losses included 570 killed in action, 2,442 wounded in action, and 140 who died of wounds. The division was inactivated on 11 October 1945, at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts. Later, reactivated in 1950 at Fort Chaffee, AR, and inactivated for the final ...
It was later reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 3d Battalion, 10th Infantry. In 1967, it was allotted to the regular army, and transferred to the 5th infantry division. Finally, its headquarters were transferred 4 June 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
History. The 61st Infantry Regiment was organized in June 1917 around a cadre from the 7th Infantry Regiment and assigned to the 5th Division. After serving in France, the 61st Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 20 July 1919 on the troopship RMS Aquitania and was transferred on 28 July 1919 to Camp Gordon, Georgia.