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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]
"Bloody Bucket" – So called by German soldiers World War II because the keystone shaped patch was red and resembled a bucket, in German, Der Blutige Eimer. "Iron Division" – From a comment by John J. Pershing following the 1918 Battle of Château-Thierry; 29th Infantry Division
One month later, during the Battle of the Bulge, the division proved instrumental in stalling the last German offensive of the war. The German High Command nicknamed the division "Bloody Bucket" following the fierce battles of the Hurtgen Forest and the Bulge. The unit suffered more than 25,000 casualties of which 2,000 were killed in action.
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.
"Climb to Glory" Division Formerly "10th Light Division (Alpine)" [World War II] 10th Infantry Division. June 1948 - June 1958. 11th Infantry Division "Lafayette Div"
It was moved to Düsseldorf for refitting. On 8 November, the division repulsed an attack from the U.S. 28th Infantry Division in the Hürtgen Forest during the larger Battle of Hürtgen Forest, recapturing the town of Schmidt, [3] thus providing the name to the 28th of the "Bloody Bucket Division".
The 32d Infantry Division had been in combat 654 days – more than any United States division in any war. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] When the cold war peaked with the Soviet blockade of Berlin in October 1961, President Kennedy became the third United States president in the 20th Century to call the 128th, as part of the 32d Infantry Division, to federal ...
The lion is in the infantry color and both symbols represent the locale of the regiment's combat in World War II. The shield is white, the old infantry color. Service in the Civil War is shown by the cross patée, the badge of the 5th Corps, 3rd Division, in which the organization served in that war.