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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 following is a list of United States Army and United States Marine Corps divisions of World War II. The United States began the war with only a handful of active divisions: five infantry and one cavalry. By the end of the war, the nation had fielded nearly one hundred. The number of divisions fielded by the United States Army in relation to ...
50th Infantry Division ("phantom" formation) 55th Infantry Division ("phantom" formation) 59th Infantry Division ("phantom" formation) 61st Infantry Division (constituted but never activated) 62nd Infantry Division (constituted but never activated) 63rd Infantry Division. 65th Infantry Division. 66th Infantry Division.
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 ...
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.
The 735th Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion that participated in the European Theater of Operations with the United States Army in World War II. The battalion entered combat in Normandy in July 1944 with the 5th Infantry Division and fought across France with the 95th Infantry Division. When reattached to the 5th Infantry ...
The 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion was a tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army active during World War II.. The battalion was formed in March 1941 as the 5th Infantry Division Provisional Antitank Battalion, and on 16 December was redesignated as the 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion, in line with the reorganisation of the anti-tank force.
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.