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The 80th Training Command (The Army School System – TASS) is a formation of the United States Army Reserve. The unit was first organized in August 1917 and activated the following September during World War I as the 80th Division. During World War II, the Division was redesignated on 1 August 1942, as the 80th Infantry Division.
Main menu. Main menu. ... (Regular Army/National Guard unit of 1918–19) 10th Mountain Division ... "Blue Ridge" [6] Division. 81st Infantry Division
80th Division ("Blue Ridge Division") 5 August 1917 23 July 1917 Brig. Gen. Herman Hall Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis Jr. Somme Offensive Meuse–Argonne: 81st Division ("Wildcat Division") 5 August 1917 2 November 1918
It was a combined result of disparaging remarks made by Army regulars about the National Guard division and the appearance of the unit shoulder sleeve insignia. The California Guardsmen took to their new nickname with a soldier's sense of humor , and turned it into a rallying symbol (sometimes used for the 9th Infantry Division, due to the ...
The 26th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.Its nickname is "Blue Spaders", taken from German soldiers in World War I who saw the spade-like device on the regiment's distinctive unit insignia and called the soldiers “Blauerspadern”.
On 23 July 1918, the War Department directed the organization of the 99th Division at Camp Wheeler, Georgia.Plans called for the division to include a headquarters, headquarters troop, the 197th Infantry Brigade (393rd and 394th Infantry Regiments and 371st Machine Gun Battalion), 198th Infantry Brigade (395th and 396th Infantry Regiments and 372nd Machine Gun Battalion), 370th Machine Gun ...
Pages in category "Lists of military units and formations of World War I" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An article in the Army and Navy Register from July 4, 1918 [12] states that the rank of motor sergeant had been created under authority granted to the president to reorganize the army as needed during the war. The article goes on the state that there was a law before congress that would create the rank of motor sergeant in all branches and ...