104th Infantry Division — “Timberwolf Division”

Patch: A gray timber wolf head on a green field.

Slogan: “Nothing in Hell must stop the Timberwolves.”

Song: “The Timberwolf Song,” words by Lt. Col. Robert Ingalls and Capt. Gates Pynes.

Training: Activated September 1942 at Camp Adair, Oregon. Trained in the Oregon Maneuver Area, then Camp Young, CA, and Camp Carson, CO. Oregon maneuvers Sept.–Nov. 1943; California-Arizona Maneuver Area Mar.–Jun. 1944, returning to Camp Carson before shipping to the ETO, Aug. 1944.

Commanding Generals: Maj. Gen. G. R. Cook (Jun. 1942–Oct. 1943); Maj. Gen. Terry de la M. Allen (Oct. 1943–present).

Component Units (Aug. 1944): 413th, 414th, 415th Infantry Regiments; 387th (M), 385th, 386th, 929th (L) FA Battalions. Higher Commands: First Canadian Army, First Army.

Awards: Commended by Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins (VII Corps) for seizing the Eschweiler–Weisweiler–Stolberg industrial area and clearing to the Roer River. Distinguished Unit Citations to 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 415th Infantry, for action at Lucherberg, Germany, Dec. 1944.

Combat Highlights: Known for brilliant night advances, the 104th seized the Eschweiler–Weisweiler–Stolberg industrial area, crossed the Inde River, and cleared its sector to the Roer — action that included taking Lamersdorf-Inden-Lucherberg and drew General Collins’ praise. Crossed the Rhine at the Remagen bridgehead March 22, 1945, then drove 193 miles in nine days to Paderborn with VII Corps, followed by an uninterrupted 175-mile advance in 18 more days. The division’s night-fighting specialty made headlines, notably when Pvt. Robert B. Thompson swam a stream under fire at Lamersdorf carrying a cable that let a platoon of Co. G, 413th Infantry, escape.