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The 7th Infantry Division is a non-deployable administrative headquarters of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.It is charged with maintaining the capability of two Stryker infantry brigade combat teams, a combat aviation brigade, and a Division Artillery Unit, as well as preparing units for several U.S. Army Pacific yearly exercises.
The predecessor of Seventh Army was the I Armored Corps, which was activated on 15 July 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.With the goal of stopping German expansion in Europe and Africa, it was decided that the first operation for United States Army forces would be to assist the British in driving German forces from North Africa.
After World War II the 7th Infantry Regiment remained a part of the 3rd Infantry Division. This would be the last war that the Cottonbalers would fight as a Regimental Combat Team (RCT). When the Korean War began in June 1950, the Seventh (7th) Infantry Regiment was located at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
On 1 July 1940, the 7th Infantry Division was reactivated at Camp Ord, California [1] Under the command of Major General Joseph W. Stilwell. [4] The Headquarters element, 13th and 14th Brigades did not reactivate, however, and the division was instead centered on three infantry regiments; the 17th Infantry Regiment, [7] the 32nd Infantry Regiment, [7] and the 53rd Infantry Regiment. [4]
The 7th Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army. It was formed in February 1940 to serve in World War II , as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF). The division was raised on the British establishment of nine infantry battalions per division [ 2 ] and consisted of two new brigades and three of the original 12 ...
Redesignated from 6th Infantry Division Provisional Antitank Battalion 607th: 9 December 1941, Fort Ord, California: 27 October 1945, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey: 25, 26, 30, 32, 34: 3-inch Gun M5, M36: Redesignated from 7th Infantry Division Provisional Antitank Battalion 608th: 15 December 1941, Fort Jackson, South Carolina: 20 December 1943 ...
It participated in the invasion of Leyte in the Philippine Islands on 20 October 1944, with the 7th Infantry Division and 96th Infantry Division its major combat units. During the campaign on Leyte and aided by Filipino regular and constable force of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary military units, the 77th Infantry ...
Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 64th Infantry. Organized 1 June 1917 at Camp Baker, Texas, from personnel of the 34th Infantry. Assigned to the 7th Division 16 November 1917. Relieved from the 7th Division and demobilized 31 July 1922 at Plattsburg Barracks, New York; Reconstituted 18 July 1941 in the Regular Army.