We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience as we balance mission-critical work and the safety of our staff during the pandemic. Immediately after Dachau's liberation, US Army authorities and other Allied representatives began treating the sick prisoners, implementing health and sanitary measures to curb the typhus epidemic, and bringing in tons of food to feed the starving prisoners. Group, 36th Engineer Combat Group (less 2nd Short version, I know that my father was transferred from the Army Air Corps to the infantry, I don't know to what division, in the winter of 1944, when the Allies were lined up along the Rhine. Headquarters & Headquarters Battery, 105th Dragoon was originally planned to coincide with the Normandy landings in the north, but was delayed until August because of a shortage of landing craft. "Train, No. By the time the 45th Infantry Division made it into Germany, the German army was in bad shape. "On 20 May, the Regiment was incorporated under the Dachau Area, Command. The scene near the entrance to the confinement area numbed my senses. In size, these cars were of the small European type, which, when used for the movement of troops, would never accommodate more than 40 men. [35] After this, the division was allocated to drive towards Messina, being ordered by the Seventh Army commander to cover the distance as quickly as possible. [39] The Fifth Army was battered and pushed back by German forces until 20 September, when Allied forces were finally able to break out and establish a more secure beachhead. After landing in France during Operation Dragoon, they joined the 1945 drive into Germany that ended the War in Europe. [59][60][61], In a third incident, the Army considered court-martialling several officers of the 157th Infantry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks after servicemen were accused of massacring German soldiers who were surrendering at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. [24], The 45th Division sailed from the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation for the Mediterranean region on 8 June 1943, combat loaded aboard thirteen attack transports and five cargo attack vessels as convoy UGF-9 headed by the communications ship USSAncon. I always felt there was more than a random reason he would have that, though his name\photo is not in the book. After the North Korean People's Army invaded the Republic of Korea, four understrength U.S. divisions on occupation duty in Japan were rushed to South Korea to stand alongside the Republic of Korea Army. [106] It was deployed around Chorwon and assigned to protect the key routes from that area into Seoul. [6] The division was formed and federally recognized as a National Guard unit on 3 August 1923 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Nonetheless, I do have a roster of the 45th Infantry Division for 1945. Headquartered for most of its history in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the guardsmen fought in both World War II and the Korean War. [95], On 1 September 1950,[96] the 45th Infantry Division was activated as the first National Guard division to be deployed to the Far East theater since World War II. [54], After the crossing was complete, the division was relieved from V Corps and assigned to Major General Wade H. Haislip's XV Corps. I have two rosters of the 45th Division plus several Excel worksheets of men who served in the division. [64] Some veterans of the 45th Infantry Division have said that only 30 to 50 German soldiers were killed and that very few were killed trying to surrender, while others have admitted to killing or refusing to treat wounded German guards.[65]. [39] It would remain in the area for a month waiting for other units to catch up before crossing the Mortagne River on 23 October. You did what you had to do.". In some of these cars there were more than enough to cover the floors. [39] At this time, VI Corps was attached to the Seventh Army, under Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, itself part of the Sixth United States Army Group under Lieutenant General Jacob L. My father, Charles Joseph Capra's records were burned up in the Armory fire in St. Louis. [63] Accounts conflict over what happened and over how many German troops were killed. They took part in intense fighting during the invasion of Sicily and the attack on Salerno in the 1943 Italian Campaign. In addition to burying the dead, the Allied forces attempted to help and comfort the survivors with food, clothing and medical assistance. The 45th Infantry Division was reassigned to VI Corps on New Year's day. [11] The onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s severely curtailed its funding for training and equipment. Anyways if you see this his name was Clarence LaHayne and he was enlisted. Yeah, I've heard of that fire in 1973. Once this rest period was complete, the division was assigned to XV Corps for the final push into German territory. It will take considerably longer to eliminate the backlog on other types of requests, such as genealogical requests for complete copies of records. Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division: Sicily. Some of the victims apparently had died only hours before the 45th Division entered the camp, while many others lay where they had died in states of decomposition that overwhelmed the soldiers' senses. [80] Its colors were returned to Oklahoma on 25 September of that year, formally ending the division's presence in Korea. . It's like a window back in time. Some of the photos were donated by loved ones seeking to know more about thier relatives wartime . If you havent already done so, we suggest that you request a copy of his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). His discharge of course just general information, various theaters served in, listing him attached to HQ CO 290 INF, 75th DIV, but that didn't explain the 3rd DIV patch on his uniform. [103] Though the division was no longer an "All-Oklahoma" unit, leaders opted to keep its designation as the 45th Infantry Division. 45th Infantry Division "Thunderbird" 1939 and before 1939 - present The 45th Infantry Division served for 511 days in Combat in the European African Middle Eastern Theater; during this time they served in the campaigns of SICILY , NAPLES-FOGGIA , ANZIO , ROME-ARNO , SOUTHERN FRANCE , RHINELAND , ARDENNES-ALSACE, and CENTRAL EUROPE. In March 1945, the "Thunderbird" division crossed the Rhine River and headed southward. So he might have actually meant one of the subcamps which would increase the number of possible units. The 45th participated in its fourth assault landing, 15 August 1944, at St. Maxime in Southern France. [citation needed]. [2] Also activated from division assets were the 45th Field Artillery Group, later redesignated the 45th Fires Brigade, and the 90th Troop Command. Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics, Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically, Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust, Explore the ID Cards to learn more about personal experiences during the Holocaust. [11], The division's original shoulder sleeve insignia, approved in August 1924,[12] featured a swastika, a common Native American symbol, as a tribute to the Southwestern United States region which had a large population of Native Americans. Courtesy of the 45th Infantry Division Museum. [80][121] The 45th Infantry Brigade received all of the 45th Division's lineage and heraldry, including its shoulder sleeve insignia. Thank you so much!Katie Capra Geuin(i am new to this page and didn't see a way to send a message without replying to this one with the same subject line), [Moderation Note: Please see How To: Contact Another User], I checked the 29 June 1945 Division Roster as well as my General Orders' Worksheet and. Raymer, Joe US Navy 419. Lucas then ordered the rest of the division ashore. I think that means he would have been in one of the artillery units for the 45th Infantry Division, but I don't know where to find a roster to check. Fearing political ramifications, Army leaders sought to prevent large numbers of casualties from any one state, and the 45th Infantry Division was an all-Oklahoma organization at the beginning of the war. The 179th Infantry and a tank battalion of CCA tried to recapture Aprilia but were repulsed. WW2 Order of Battle Medical Units. [21][23] By the time the 45th Division landed in North Africa on 22 June 1943, the Allies had largely secured the African theater. [80] Instead of comprising units from several states, the post-war 45th was an all-Oklahoma organization. Additionally, only about 20 percent of its personnel had prior experience of military service from World War II. Documents: All of the files from The 45th Division in World War II: The Thunderbirds Facebook Group in searchable PDF format plus other documents. Screen shot attached. Each of the four sides of the patch represents one of those four states. [10], The 45th Infantry Division engaged in regular drills but no major events in its first few years, though the division's Colorado elements were called in to help quell a large coal mining strike. [115] The ensuing Battle of Hill Eerie was one of a series of larger attacks by Chinese and North Korean forces which produced heavier fighting than the previous year had seen. [8] The 45th Infantry Division was then based around the 157th, 179th, and 180th Infantry Regiments. The division remained a National Guard formation until its downsizing in 1968. For more information see, Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), Archival Records Requests, Please be aware that NPRC is prioritizing the requests for separation documents needed by veterans and their dependents to prove eligibility for a variety of benefits. Sheeran later joked that they did so without complaint, likely hoping that he and his buddies would change their minds. [22] The division, now commanded by Major General Troy H. Middleton, a Regular Army soldier and highly distinguished World War I veteran, moved to the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation's Camp Patrick Henry to await combat loading on the transports. One story I often share to illustrate how we have to look at the stories left by soldiers and their families helps illustrate the problem. His photos seem to point to him potentially being in the 45th Infantry.We know he entered as a private and within 6 months was a Master Seargent. The dates after the campaign name are the dates of the campaign not of the division. . According to the regimental After Action Report of May 1945. the 1st and 2nd Battalions were assigned to guard duty at KZ Dachau. To access these records for the 1940s, you will need to either make an appointment to visit the National Archives at St. Louis or hire a researcher. Calculated attempts to dehumanize and degrade German POWs. [31] After initially encountering resistance from armor of the Hermann Goering Division, the division advanced, supported by paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, who landed inland on 11 July. The 45th Infantry Division was a National Guard Unit. The following month, the division landed in Sicily, where it engaged Axis troops in combat. On Sunday, April 29th, 1945, the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, Germany. Lucas then moved the rest of the 45th Division to the left-center of the perimeter, at Aprilia and along the west branch of the Mussolini Canal. [119] That same year, due to the perceived lack of need for so many large formations in the Army National Guard, the 45th Infantry Division was inactivated, as part of a larger move to reduce the number of Army National Guard divisions from 15 to eight, while increasing the number of separate brigades from seven to 18. But the mule drivers were shot and buried in the holes they had dug. Artillery and the four Artillery Battalions) and did not find his name. [101] By 1952, it was fully integrated. & 3rd Battalions), 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at St. Louis (RL-SL) at stl.archives@nara.gov. Check out the people who helped make it possible! I've always wondered why there is a 3rd ID patch on his uniform when his discharge indicates 75th ID. Some of those photos match the area where Operation Dragoon was executed. [7], The 45th Infantry Division Museum is located in Oklahoma City, and includes a substantial collection of cartoons by World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who served with it during the war. [117] One soldier from the division, Charles George, was awarded the Medal of Honor while serving in Korea. He also claimed to have been at Dachau and talked about it to some detail when I was younger. Following Sicily the division landed at Salerno and Anzio, as part of the forces in the taking of Italy. & 01.11.1944-10.11.1944 & 01.12.1944-14.02.1945 & 05.03.1945-22.03.1945 The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States; , U.S. Government Printing Office. [29][30] Landing near Scoglitti, the southernmost U.S. objective on the island, the division advanced north on the U.S. force's eastern flank. During World War I, Colonel A. W. Bloor, commander of the 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, tested and deployed a code, using the Choctaw language in place of regular military code. After advancing up the Italian peninsula, the 45th landed at Anzio in February 1944, where it withstood repeated German assaults against its positions. Wilkin. Battalion. [102] Additionally, in an effort to reduce the burden on the National Guard,[n 2] troops from the division were often replaced by enlisted and drafted soldiers from the active duty force. These units were assigned to the 40th Division, and deployed to France where the division was used as a "depot" unit to process and provide replacements for front-line units. He died in 1966. NPRC expects to eliminate this portion of the backlog by fall 2022, and restore their pre-pandemic response times of under ten days for these requests later this fall. Lucas sent famed U.S. Army Ranger leader Colonel William Orlando Darby to assume command of the 157th Infantry, and the Germans were repulsed. The 45th Infantry Division took the strongly defended city of Epinal on 24 September. Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division: Central Europe. I know that the 45th, the 42nd, and the 3rd Divisions swept down through that area. Army Unit Rosters and Unit Photos. The 45th Infantry Division was formed in 1924 from National Guard units in the southwestern United States. [10] In 1937, the division's troops were once again called up, this time to help manage a locust plague affecting Colorado. [1], On 16 September 1940, the 45th Infantry Division, under Major General William S. Key, was federalized from state control. [112], In early 1953, North Korean forces launched a large-scale attack against Hill 812, which was then under the control of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 179th Infantry. On 7 December 1945, the division was inactivated from the active duty force and its members reassigned to other Army units. [50], The 45th Infantry Division participated in its fourth amphibious assault landing during Operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944, at St. Maxime, in Southern France. [111], In the division's first few months on the line, Chinese forces conducted three raids in its sector. Then the Wehrmacht mule drivers were given shovels and ordered to "dig their own shallow graves". The division received seven distinguished unit citations and eight campaign streamers during the conflict. This is intended as a rememberance or memorial to those who served in the 45th Infantry Division. [26] Nine soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during their service with the 45th Infantry Division: Van T. Barfoot,[72] Ernest Childers,[73] Almond E. Fisher,[74] William J. Johnston,[75] Salvador J. Lara,[76] Jack C. Montgomery,[77] James D. Slaton,[73] Jack Treadwell,[78] and Edward G. You may experience a delay in receiving an initial acknowledgment as well as a substantive response to your reference request from RL-SL. like the original poster my grandfather was originally in the army air corp as a belly gunner in I believe the B24, but was transferred to infantry after a perforated eardrum. After entering the camp, the soldiers found boxcars filled with dead bodies of prisoners who had succumbed to starvation or last-minute executions, and in rooms adjacent to gas chambers they found naked bodies piled from the floor to the ceiling. . As the 45th Infantry Division completed its drive on Munich, the unit was ordered to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. To search PDF documents, download and open in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Adobe is unable to convert all 75 year old text to searchable text. [15] Its men immediately began basic combat training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [49] The division was allowed a one-month rest, resuming its advance on 25 November, attacking the forts north of Mutzig. These offensives were conducted largely in order to secure a better position during the ongoing truce negotiations. Headquartered mostly in Oklahoma City, the guardsmen fought in both World War II and the Korean War. Some of the German troops were camp guards; the others were sick and wounded troops from a nearby hospital. When US troops arrived in Dachau on April 29, they found 2,310 additional corpses on the train. His discharge papers list him as part of HQ & HQ Company 290 Infantry, which, if I'm right was part of the 75th Division, but they were farther to the north, involved in the Bulge. Red is a symbol of bravery and valor. This tool uses JavaScript and much of it will not work correctly without it enabled. I found that book on the 180th Regiment by George Fisher on line. & 02.11.1944 & 05.12.1944-28.12.1944, Hq & Hq Battery, 938th FA Battalion The delegations of journalists and congressmen who had been viewing the Buchenwald concentration camp were quickly diverted to Dachau to see the camp. [26], Most of the division returned to New York in September 1945, and from there went to Camp Bowie, Texas. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. The 3rd Division was not directly involved in the liberation of Dachau, but Dad, if he was with the 3rd Division, could have been sent over to see the camp. Mortar Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat In 1940, the "Thunderbird" division was reactivated and deployed in late June 1943 to North Africa. Please type your message and try again. 103rd Infantry Division, 15.08.1944-30.09.1944 & 06.10.1944-26.10.1944 The first evidence of the horror to come was a string of about forty railway cars on a siding near the camp entrance. Sheeran explained that by then, he "had no hesitation in doing what I had to do. [43] Landing on schedule, VI Corps surprised the Germans, but Major General Lucas's decision to consolidate the beachhead instead of attacking gave the Germans time to bring the LXXVI Panzer Corps forward to oppose the landings. On April 28, the day before liberation, a train bearing about 40 or so railway cars arrived at the camp. Hey Dave, Im new to this site and stumbled across this thread. A Company), A Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, C Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, B Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, D Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion (less Attachments [45] For the next few months the 45th Infantry Division was mostly stuck in place, holding its ground during repeated German counterattacks, and subjected to bombardment from aircraft and artillery.[39]. So he might have actually meant one of the subcamps which would increase the number of possible units. We have every reason to believe him, because he was not the kind to tell stories just to make himself look good. & 05.03.1945-15.03.1945 & 20.03.1945-25.03.1945 & 11.04.1945-10.05.1945, 1st Platoon, A Battery, 353rd AAA SL Battalion, 15.08.1944-25.08.1944 & 30.08.1944-09.11.1944 Up till now everything was basically small scattered pieces to the puzzle. The reenacting unit attends living history displays and tactical events throughout the region. The 45th Infantry Division guardsmen saw no major action until they became one of the first National Guard units activated in World War II in 1941. Sheeran told Brandt that, when a German soldier had just killed his close friends and then tried to surrender, he would often "send him to hell, too". It went over to the attack, 23 May, crossed the Tiber River, 4 June, outflanking Rome and withdrew for rest and training on the 16th. In the town of Dachau, German opponents of the regime, including a few escaped concentration camp prisoners, took over the town hall, but the local SS put down the small rebellion and executed those among the insurgents whom they caught. [104], The division remained as a unit of the Oklahoma National Guard, and participated in no major actions throughout the rest of the 1950s save regular weekend and summer training exercises. The local townspeople were brought in to give the dead prisoners a proper burial. We suggest if the search does not find the name you are seeking, also search manually . Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division: Southern France, Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division: Rhineland. Divisional troops Slowly advancing through Italy, they fought in Anzio and the Beachhead breakout to the capture of Rome. Veterans and next of kin of deceased veterans also may use eVetRecs to request records. Seventh Army under Lieutenant General George S. Patton, for the operation. 45th Infantry Division WWII Veteran Cap Black 5.0 (1) $2695 $7.49 delivery Fri, Dec 23 Arrives before Christmas 45th Infantry Division/Brigade 1 inch Enamel Pin $999 Save 15% when you buy $40.00 of select items FREE delivery Dec 22 - 28 Small Business 45th Infantry Division in the Sicilian Campaign, Part 2 by U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division One of our soldiers told his family about his participation in D-Day in France. Horrible images. 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