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The 133rd Infantry Regiment was reorganized and federally recognized on 25 November 1946 with headquarters at Cedar Falls, Iowa. [1] The unit was relieved from the 34th Infantry Division on 1 May 1959 and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.
After rest and rehabilitation, during which the 133rd Infantry's 2nd Battalion rejoined its parent regiment, the 34th Division landed at the Anzio beachhead 25 March 1944. The division maintained defensive positions until the offensive of 23 May, when it broke out of the beachhead, took Cisterna , and raced to Civitavecchia and the Italian ...
Booker joined the army from his birthplace of Callaway, Nebraska, in June 1942, [1] and by April 9, 1943, was serving as a private in the 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. On that day, near Fondouk, Tunisia, he advanced alone across open terrain despite intense hostile fire and began firing on the enemy with his machine gun ...
By February 3, 1944, was serving as a private first class in the 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. On that day, northwest of Cassino, Italy, Powers single-handedly destroyed three German machine gun emplacements. He was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later, on January 15, 1945. [2]
47th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia worn by 34th Infantry Brigade, now 2nd Brigade, 34th Division, 1968-91. The history of the 2nd Brigade Headquarters began in June, 1924 with the activation in Boone of Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 2nd Battalion, 185th Field Artillery, a unit of the 34th Infantry Division. [1]
As the 67th Infantry Brigade, the brigade was initially formed in August 1917 in the Iowa and Nebraska Army National Guards, and was part of the 34th Division mobilized for World War I. [3] It comprised the 133rd Infantry Regiment of Iowa and the 134th Infantry Regiment of Nebraska.
US 34th Infantry Division Major General Charles W. Ryder) Infantry 133rd Infantry Regiment 135th Infantry Regiment 168th Infantry Regiment Artillery 125th, 151st and 175th Field Artillery Battalions 185th Field Artillery Battalion Divisional troops 109th Engineer Battalion US 36th Infantry Division Major General Fred L. Walker Infantry
With the rest of the division, the 34th then took up occupation duty in Germany during negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles. The regiment returned to the United States in June 1919. The 34th Infantry Regiment was transferred on 25 June 1919 to Camp Funston, Kansas, and to Camp George G. Meade, Maryland on 16 January 1921.