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The following is a list of United States Army and United States Marine Corps divisions of World War II. The United States began the war with only a handful of active divisions: five infantry and one cavalry. By the end of the war, the nation had fielded nearly one hundred.
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.
A. 101st Airborne Division; 11th Airborne Division; 13th Airborne Division (United States) 17th Airborne Division (United States) 82nd Airborne Division
46th Infantry Division (United States) (phantom World War II division, postwar National Guard formation) 47th Infantry Division (Post-war National Guard Division nicknamed "Viking") 48th Infantry Division (United States) (phantom World War II division, postwar National Guard formation)
Of these divisions, only two were outside the continental United States, the remaining 34 lacked essential equipment and only 17 had received sufficient training to be considered combat ready. By 1945, the number of troops had grown to 7.7 million soldiers.
1st Medical Group (United States) 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division; 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division (United States) 2nd Chemical Battalion (United States) V Corps Artillery (United States) Seventh United States Army; 15th Brigade Support Battalion (United States) 23rd Chemical Battalion; 25th Station Hospital Unit
List of United States divisions during World War II; Retrieved from "https: ...
Pages in category "Infantry divisions of the United States Army in World War II" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .