Infantry Divisions

Command ship Mount Whitney - 700 sailors, 400 troops. IRAQ 82nd Airborne 3rd Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division 173rd Airborne Brigade V Corps 1st Armored Division - 250,000 soldiers. I Marine Expeditionary Force. KUWAIT Elements of the 101st Airborne Division - about... 

An armored or infantry division in the field is not at great risk of exposure to a marine toxin whose toxicity is so low that 80 tonnes is needed to produce an MCBW covering 10 km2. Most marine toxins are simply too difficult to produce in such quantities. Military leaders on today s battlefield should be concerned first about the most toxic bacterial toxins. 

On April 17, led by an infantry-division intelligence officer familiar with the area, Lansdale and his team struck for Stassfurt ... 

Dupiiy, R. Ernest. St. Vith Lion in the Way The 106th Infantry Division in World War II. Washington, D.C. Washington Infantry Journal Press, 1949. 

Kline, John, ed. The Cub of the Golden Lion Passes in Review (106th Infantry Division). St. Paul West Publishing, 1981. 

This account of the duties of the division chemical officer is based on (i) Riegelman, Admin of Cml Warfare Functions in Theaters of Opns—SWPA (a) Memo, Arthur for Hist Off, ai Nov 45, sub Review of Col Riegelman s Passer, Admin of Cml Warfare Functions in Theaters of Opns—SWPA (Colonel Arthur was Chemical Officer, 41st Infantry Division and I Corps) (3) Memo, Lt Col Maurice A. Peerenboom for Hist Off, n.d. (Colonel Peerenboom served as Chemical Officer, id Infantnr Division in 1943) (4) Personal Ltr, Maj David D. Hulsey to Waitt, 3 Jun 43, in CWS 3 4-7 Pers Ltr... 

File (Misc) WESPAC, AFPAC, SPBC (Maj Hulsey was Chemical Officer, 6th Infantry Division) ... 

Maj. John H. Becque, Chemical Officer, 25 th Infantry Division, was on duty at the Aliamanu crater post with the division staff. Unmacht secured the appointment of ist Lt. Woodson C. Tucker as Acting Chemical Officer, 24th Infantry Division, which lacked a... 

USAFIA chemical officers collected the maintenance stocks from incoming organizations and units and these constituted the first theater chemical warfare supply. Even Task Force 6814, soon to be the Americal Division, added to this stock when it stopped over in Melbourne on the way to New Caledonia. The 3 ad and 41st Infantry Divisions, on arriving in Australia in the spring of 1942, also contributed. The chemical stockpile further increased as the War Depart-... 

The Fifth Army landings in the Gulf of Salerno, just around the Sorrento Peninsula from Naples, represented the first foothold of American troops on the mainland of Europe. Two corps participated in the attack—the British 10 on the left and the U.S. VI on the right. The 36th Infantry Division, forming the assault element of the American corps, drew as its objective the beaches near the town of Paestum. ... 

On 9 March the 88 th Infantry Division relieved a British unit on Fifth Army s extreme left. The sector included the area southeast of the town of Minturno where Highway No. 7 crossed the Garigliano not far from where the river emptied into the Tyrrhenian Sea. About... 

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