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The 13th Division was activated at Camp Lewis, Washington on 16 July 1918 as part of the U.S. military mobilization for World War I. [2] It was manned and trained at Camp Lewis in preparation for combat in France, Several existing Regular Army units, and cadres taken from these units, formed the division's nucleus, while draftees, predominantly from California, Montana, Oregon, Washington ...
13th Division 1918-19 ... 14th Division (Regular Army/National Guard WWI—distinct from National Guard 14th Division) ... 15th Armored Division World War II "phantom ...
13th Division ("Lucky 13th") 16 July 1918 No Combat Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt Brig. Gen. Frank B. Watson Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Leitch - 14th Division ("Wolverine Division") 9 July 1918 No Combat Brig. Gen. Howard L. Laubach Maj. Gen. Grote Hutcheson - Insignia Never Selected 15th Division: 31 July 1918 No Combat Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry Jr. -
During World War II the first flight nurses uniform consisted of a blue wool battle dress jacket, blue wool trousers and a blue wool men's style maroon piped garrison cap. The uniform was worn with either the ANC light blue or white shirt and black tie. After 1943 the ANC adopted olive drab service uniforms similar to the newly formed WAC.
The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division (11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd and 101st) to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on Friday 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. [1]
An article in the Army and Navy Register from July 4, 1918 [12] states that the rank of motor sergeant had been created under authority granted to the president to reorganize the army as needed during the war. The article goes on the state that there was a law before congress that would create the rank of motor sergeant in all branches and ...
General W.T. Sherman called the performance "unequaled in the Army" and authorized the 13th Infantry to inscribe "First at Vicksburg" on its colors. [2] During the first post-war expansion of the United States Army following independence, a 13th Regiment of Infantry was formed on 16 July 1798, and was mustered out 11 January 1800.
13th Reserve Division (German Empire) 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian), a German unit in World War II; 13th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr), Germany; 13th Infantry Division (Greece) 13th Infantry Division "Re", a unit of the Royal Italian Army; 13th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 13th Division (North Korea)