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The regiment deployed to Japan with the 40th Infantry Division in March 1951 where it engaged in several months of training before shipping out to South Korea in February 1952 as part of the 40th Infantry Division. The 160th served for the last fifteen months of combat in Korea and then returned to California with the 40th in June 1954 and was ...
The 40th Infantry Division ("Sunburst Division") [2] is a modular division of the California Army National Guard.Following the Army's modularization in the mid-2000s, the division has become a modular unit consisting of three brigade combat teams, with National Guardsmen from throughout the Pacific and Western United States and Oceania.
John Carleton Sjogren was an American soldier in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor in World War II during the campaign to recapture the Philippines from Japanese forces in 1945. Against superior numbers, Sjogren was able to kill 43 enemy soldiers as well as destroying 9 pillboxes. He was the first of four soldiers from the ...
The regiment also proceeded to seize the airfield at Mandurriao district. The Japanese were holed up in Iloilo City, and the 40th Division easily swept these Japanese outposts in two days. Mopping up operations by the guerrillas and 2nd Battalion of the 160th Infantry Regiment continued, and at war's end, some 1,500 Japanese troops surrendered.
The Japanese were concentrated in Iloilo City proper, and the 40th Division in two days easily defeated these Japanese outposts. Mopping up operations by the guerrillas and 2nd Battalion of the 160th Infantry Regiment continued, and at war's end, some 1,500 Japanese troops surrendered.
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.
The 160th Infantry Division (German: 160. Infanterie-Division ) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II . The unit, at times designated Commander of Reserve Troops X (German: Kommandeur der Ersatztruppen X ), Commander of Reserve Troops X/I (German: Kommandeur der Ersatztruppen X/I ), 160th Division (German: 160.
40th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army; 40th Division (United Kingdom), a unit of the United Kingdom Army; 40th Infantry Division (United States), a unit of the California Army National Guard in the U.S. Army. 40th Infantry Division (People's Republic of China), a unit of the PLA; 40th Rifle Division; 40th ...