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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 ...
1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division. 1st Aviation Brigade. 1st Signal Brigade. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. 11th Infantry Brigade. 18th Military Police Brigade. 44th Medical Brigade. 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Division insignia of the United States Army. Shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI) are cloth emblems worn on the shoulders of US Army uniforms to identify the primary headquarters to which a soldier is assigned. The SSI of some army divisions have become known in popular culture. [1][2][3]
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 ...