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The 132nd Infantry Regiment was organized from other Illinois militia units, namely the 2nd and 7th Infantry Regiments, and activated on 21 July 1917. [2] Assigned to the 33rd Infantry Division, it was redesignated on 12 October 1917 as the 132nd Infantry Regiment and trained at Camp Logan, Texas.
The 132nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days and served its term of enlistment as a garrison unit in Paducah, Kentucky.
The regiment was raised in July 1862, and was finally organized at East New York by consolidating with the Thurlow Weed Guards as part of the Spinola Brigade, and nearly all the men recruited for the 53d N. Y. Volunteers, second organization; it was mustered in for three years October 4, 1862, at Washington, DC; June 15, 1865, the men not to be mustered out with the regiment were transferred ...
The 164th Regiment took part in repulsing a major Japanese offensive in October 1942, while the 132nd Regiment, along with the 25th Infantry Division assaulted the highly fortified Japanese Gifu defensive complex at Mount Austen in January 1943. Historians describe the Americal Division as the most effective of all the US Army divisions in that ...
The 132nd Infantry Regiment was detached from the division on 14 January 1942 for service in New Caledonia with the task force that would eventually form the Americal Division. The 33rd Infantry Division was ordered to convert from the "square" to the "triangular" organization on 21 February 1942.
While the 132nd Infantry Regiment had little modern combat experience aside from jungle skirmishes and patrols, it was proud of its combat history, having participated in both the Civil War and World War I, and its young reserve officers and non-commissioned officers considered themselves skilled in rifle and machine-gun tactics and ...
The 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in August 1862 and mustered in under the command of Colonel Richard A. Oakford.. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps, to May 1863.
The 132nd Indiana Infantry Regiment served in the Union Army between May 18 and September 7, 1864, during the American Civil War. Service