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By the mid-1920s, most of the divisions' inactive units were staffed with Organized Reserve officers as "Regular Army Inactive" units. The Hawaiian Division, "which was the closest thing to a full-strength division in the interwar American Army." was split on 1 October 1941 to create the 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions.
This is a list of formations of the United States Army during the World War II.Many of these formations still exist today, though many by different designations. Included are formations that were placed on rolls, but never organized, as well as "phantom" formations used in the Allied Operation Quicksilver deception of 1944—these are marked accordingly.
Stanton, Shelby, World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939-1946 (Revised Edition, 2006), Stackpole Books ISBN 0-8117-0157-3; Taggart, Donald G., ed. History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II. Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1947. Reprint.
Text-only listings of their large World War II collection, which must be visited in person. 3rd AD Unit page on Military.com. Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Roll of Honor of the 3rd Armored Division during WWII. Bureau of Land Management site on 3rd AD training area in Mojave Desert Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
The Korean War saw a repeat of the earlier World War II training duties. The Third Army remained responsible for this aspect of U.S. Armed Forces operations until 1974, when a new major headquarters, that of Forces Command, or FORSCOM was activated to replace Third Army. Third Army was thus inactivated, and it remained so for the better part of ...
10th Division (Regular Army/National Guard unit of 1918–19) ... 3rd Cavalry Division. ... 39th Armored Division World War II ghost division.
List of British colonial divisions in World War II; List of British Commonwealth divisions in the Second World War; List of British Commands and Army groups; List of British Commonwealth and Empire brigades of the Second World War; List of British corps in World War II; List of British divisions in World War II
The Army Ground Forces: The Organization of Ground Combat Troops (PDF). United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History. Stanton, Shelby L. (1984). Order of Battle U.S. Army, World War II. Novato. California: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-195-X. Zaloga, Steve (2005). US Tank and Tank Destroyer Battalions in the ...