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Enlisted personnel of the regiment were rotated on 4-year tours with personnel of the 65th Infantry in Puerto Rico. The 42nd Infantry was inactivated, less the 3rd Battalion, at Camp Gaillard from 14 March–30 April 1927, and allotted to the Second Corps Area. The 3rd Battalion was transferred on 31 July 1927 to San Juan and inactivated, with ...
The 42nd Infantry Division (42ID) ("Rainbow" [1]) is a division of the United States Army National Guard.It was nicknamed the Rainbow Division because, during rapid mobilization for service in WW1, it was formed from 27 National Guard units from across the US.
The 42nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was a regiment of infantry that served two tours in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was first formed in September 1862 in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for 300,000 men to serve for nine months.
The 42nd United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.
The Combat Aviation Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division is a subordinate command of the 42nd Infantry Division. Once contained solely within New York , force reductions and reorganizations have resulted in units from several different states making up the brigade.
The 42nd New York Infantry Regiment, also called the Tammany Regiment, was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861 and mustered in on June 22, 1861. It was organized by the Tammany Club , a New York Democratic Party club.
The 42nd Virginia, organized at Staunton, Virginia, in July 1861, recruited its members in Henry, Floyd, Bedford, Campbell, Roanoke, Patrick, and Franklin counties.. After fighting at First Kernstown and in Jackson's Valley Campaign, the unit was assigned to J.R. Jones' and W. Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.
Among the A.E.F. units involved in this action were the 3rd Infantry Division, 26th and 28th Divisions, the 42nd Infantry Division, the 369th Infantry Regiment, and supporting elements (in all about 85,000 Americans). It was here that the 38th Infantry and the 30th Infantry Regiments of the 3rd Division gained the motto, "Rock of the Marne."