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To return the division to three regiments, the 119th Infantry Regiment was reconstituted in the North Carolina National Guard on 24 August 1942, activated on 7 September 1942 at Fort Jackson, and assigned to the 30th Infantry Division. The 119th Infantry would fight with the 30th Division in Europe in 1944–1945 in the Normandy, Northern ...
The 30th Infantry Division, involved in 282 days of intense combat over a period from June 1944 through April 1945, was regarded by a team of historians led by S.L.A. Marshall as the American infantry division that had "performed the most efficient and consistent battle services" in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). [2]
Horner joined the army from Shamokin, Pennsylvania, in January 1941, [1] and by November 16, 1944, was serving as a staff sergeant in Company K, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division. On that day, in Würselen, Germany, he single-handedly attacked three German machine gun positions and killed or captured the soldiers manning them. For ...
He was assigned to Company K, 119th Infantry, 30th Division. He was one of two soldiers from North Carolina to be awarded the Medal of Honor for service in the First World War. He is buried in Somme American Cemetery and Memorial, Somme Picardie, France. His grave can be found in plot D, row 20, grave 2. [2]
The division consisted of the 117th, the 118th, the 119th, and the 120th Infantry Regiments, along with the 113th, 114th, 115th Machine Gun Battalions, and the 105th Engineer Regiment. Soldiers from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee comprised the division when it shipped off to France for combat on the Western Front.
Postwar, the 120th Infantry was reorganized with the 30th Infantry Division in the North Carolina Army National Guard under the command of Shelby attorney Colonel Peyton McSwain, [7] with its headquarters Federally recognized at Reidsville on 22 April 1947. Its previous 1st and 3rd Battalions were consolidated with the 119th Infantry Regiment. [2]
119th Infantry Division. Operation Wedlock "phantom" unit. ... 30th Armored Division "Volunteers" 1954 – Dec 1973. Tennessee National Guard. 39th Armored Division
9th Infantry Division Major General Manton S. Eddy Infantry: 39th, 47th, 60th Infantry Regiments Artillery–105 mm: 26th, 60th, 84th Field Artillery Battalions Artillery–155 mm: 34th Field Artillery Battalion Armor: 746th Tank Battalion 30th Infantry Division Major General Leland S. Hobbs Infantry: 117th, 119th, 120th Infantry Regiments