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The 84th Training Command ("Railsplitters" [1]) is a formation of the United States Army. During World War I it was designated the 84th Division, American Expeditionary Forces; during World War II it was known as the 84th Infantry Division. From 1946 to 1952, the division was a part of the United States Army Reserve as the 84th Airborne Division.
84th Infantry ("Railsplitters") Division Brigadier General Alexander R. Bolling 333rd, 334th, and 335th Infantry Regiments 325th, 326th, 327th, and 909th FA Battalions 309th Engineer Combat Battalion 701st Tank Battalion, replaced by 771st Tank Battalion on 20 December 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion 557th AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion
"Ragtag Circus" – Ostensibly because of the vehicles the division commandeered from French and German sources, including a concrete mixer and fire truck, to transport troops into Germany during World War II. 84th Infantry Division – "Railsplitters"; This is today's 84th Training Command.
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)
The 1st through 25th Infantry Divisions, excepting the 10th Mountain Division, were raised in the Regular Army or the Army of the United States prior to American involvement in World War II. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated.
See photos to this story The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered ...
Homecoming is a 1943 photograph of an American soldier returning from active service in World War II. The image was captured by Earle Bunker and it won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. The image also won a national Associated Press news photo contest and it was featured in Life, Time and Newsweek.
The Rhineland Offensive was a series of allied offensive operations by 21st Army Group commanded by Bernard Montgomery from 8 February 1945 to 25 March 1945, at the end of the Second World War.