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The 28th Infantry Division ("Keystone") [1] is a unit of the United States Army National Guard, and is the oldest division-sized unit in the Army. [2] Some of the units of the division can trace their lineage to Benjamin Franklin's battalion, The Pennsylvania Associators (1747–1777). [3]
New York NY, 1983). History of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment (of the 1st Division) in 1968. Gray, Frank Orville. Grasshopper Fox C.P. A privately printed history of Company F, 28th Infantry Regiment. Tripp, Nathaniel. Father, Soldier, Son—memoir of a platoon leader of the 28th Infantry Regiment in Vietnam. Nelson, James Carl.
The 28th Division was redesignated as the 28th Infantry Division on 17 February 1942. [ 2 ] During its participation in the European Theater of Operations in the Second World War , the 109th Regiment served across France and through the Hurtgen Forest of Germany; elements of the Regiment led the Division into the Rhineland to become the first ...
The 28th Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised for service in World War I. ... Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of ...
Company H, 110th Infantry was inducted into federal service for World War II in February 1942. It served with the 28th Infantry Division in the European Theater, and was demobilized in October, 1945. In September 1950, Company H was activated for service during the Korean War, and remained mobilized in West Germany until June, 1954. [5]
During the war, the 28th Infantry Division took a total of 14,139 casualties (KIA-2,165 ; WIA-11,974). The brigade was again part of the 28th Division from 1921 to 1941. The current brigade traces its origins to the 111th Infantry and the Pentomic and Reorganization Objective Army Division reorganizations of the 28th Infantry Division from ...
The 55th MEB was once the 55th Heavy Brigade Combat Team "strike brigade" subordinate to the 28th ID, as the 55th MEB is today. [2] Its headquarters is in Scranton, PA. [3] Pennsylvania's 7th Division moved to Camp Hancock, Georgia, in April 1917, and was there when the entire division was federalized on 5 August 1917. From May to 11 October ...
28th Division or 28th Infantry Division may refer to: Infantry divisions: 28th Division (German Empire) 28th Reserve Division (German Empire) 28th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) 28th Infantry Division Aosta, Kingdom of Italy; 28th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 28th Infantry Division (Poland) 28th Division (Spain) 28th Division (United Kingdom)