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The 41st Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army National Guard composed primarily of units from the Pacific Northwest. The division saw active service in World War I and World War II , receiving the nickname “Jungleers” during the latter.
After a 45-minute pre-landing naval bombardment, [16] the 41st Infantry Division of the United States Army landed on Biak on 27 May 1944, initially with the 162nd Infantry Regiment, and soon followed by the remainder of the division, including the 163rd and 186th Infantry Regiments.
The Jungleers: A History of the 41st Infantry Division. Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal Press. OCLC 2339701. Miller, John (1959). Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul. United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Washington DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. OCLC 1355535.
41st Infantry Division "Jungleers" – due to combat in the Pacific during WW II "Sunset" – Unit patch has a half sun represents the setting sun on the Pacific. Often humorously referred to as the "Days Inn Patch" or "Thirteen Lieutenants Pointing North", this is today's 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team. 42nd Infantry Division – "Rainbow"
The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Sunset" [1]) is an element in the Oregon Army National Guard. Headquartered at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas, Oregon, it was part of the 7th Infantry Division based at Ft. Carson in Colorado (inactivated in 2006). The brigade traces its lineage back to the 41st Infantry Division.
Mustered into federal service 7 April 1917 at Fort William H. Harrison. Consolidated with the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Infantry, District of Columbia National Guard, reorganized and redesignated the 163rd Infantry Regiment, and assigned to the 41st Infantry Division (United States) 19 September 1917. Demobilized 21 February 1919 at Camp Dix, NJ.
The 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division was reflagged as the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. 1-41st Infantry's mission was to deploy, with or without equipment, build combat power, conduct military operations in support of the 3d Brigade Combat Team (not to be confused with the modular brigade combat team), or other headquarters ...
Horace Hayes Fuller was born on August 10, 1886, in Fort Meade, South Dakota, [1] the son of Major Ezra B. Fuller. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point – where his father had graduated with the class of 1873 – by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. [2]