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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 deactivated on 24 November 1992 and reflagged as the 2nd Armored Division.
The division was largely composed of Nùng people until about 1965 when its composition was increasingly ethnic Vietnamese and the Nùngs moved into MIKE Force units. [2]: 72 The principal sub-units of the division were the 7th, 8th and 9th Infantry Regiments and the 1st Armored Cavalry Regiment.
In August 1995 the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment was reassigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, as part of the 1st Brigade "Lancers," 25th Infantry Division (Light). In 1996 the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry participated in the Advanced Warfighting Experiment, which culminated with a National Training Center rotation in March 1997.
Following the advent of the armored division, infantry divisions became officially designated by "Infantry Division" (with the 25th Infantry Division being the first constituted by the adjutant general as such). All of the 1917–1941 (non-cavalry) divisions, with the exceptions of the 10th through 20th and 101st Divisions, would be ...
2nd Indian Cavalry Division, designated 5th Cavalry Division from November 1916 to March 1918 in France in World War I 5th Cavalry Division (India) , served from July 1918 in Palestine in World War I Armored divisions
The 5th Wisconsin Infantry initially mustered 1108 men and later recruited an additional 832 men, for a total of 1940 men. [1] The regiment suffered 15 officers and 180 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 2 officers and 132 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 329 fatalities.
United States Fifth Army – (Lieutenant General Mark Clark) U.S. II Corps – (Major General Geoffrey Keyes) U.S. 34th Infantry Division – (Major General Charles L. Bolte) U.S. 88th Infantry Division – (Major General John E. Sloan) U.S. 91st Infantry Division – (Major General William G. Livesay)
Mordecai Gist, a young Baltimore merchant, organized a militia company on 3 December 1774.This company was the nucleus of Baltimore's Fifth Regiment which—expanded, modified, and undergoing occasional changes in designation—has enjoyed an uninterrupted history down to the present 175th Infantry (Fifth Maryland), Maryland Army National Guard.