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2nd Filipino Infantry Regiment; 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) 6th Infantry Regiment (United States) 12th Infantry Regiment (United States) 18th Infantry Regiment (United States) 20th Infantry Regiment (United States) 21st Infantry Regiment (United States) 24th Infantry Regiment (United States)
As the Germans rearmed in the 1930s, they equipped some infantry units in their new Panzer divisions with the half-track Sd.Kfz. 251, which could keep up with tanks on most terrain. The French Army also created "light mechanized" (légère mécanisée) divisions in which some of the infantry units possessed small tracked carriers. Together with ...
The corps theoretically consisted of three infantry divisions, an anti-aircraft regiment, a mechanized cavalry regiment, two engineer regiments, a field artillery brigade, a tank destroyer group, a signal battalion and various service units. The size of corps staffs was drastically reduced by Army Ground Forces in 1943 as the corps concept ...
The 1st through 25th Infantry Divisions, excepting the 10th Mountain Division, were raised in the Regular Army or the Army of the United States prior to American involvement in World War II. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated.
7th Cavalry Regiment; 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) 32nd Cavalry Regiment; 33rd Armor Regiment; 60th Coast Artillery; 71st Cavalry Regiment; 89th Infantry Regiment (United States) 147th Field Artillery Regiment; 251st Coast Artillery Regiment (United States) 341st Engineer General Service Regiment; 532nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment
This is a list of formations of the United States Army during the World War II.Many of these formations still exist today, though many by different designations. Included are formations that were placed on rolls, but never organized, as well as "phantom" formations used in the Allied Operation Quicksilver deception of 1944—these are marked accordingly.
The 222nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army, AUS. It served in the 42nd Infantry Division for the duration of the Second World War , and was then deactivated. The regiment distinguished itself in battle against the Wehrmacht and earned the Presidential Unit Citation for courageous action.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.