Description

42nd Infantry Division Special Troops
42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow) • World War II •

122 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
Published by the Army and Navy Publishing Company of Louisiana while the 42nd “Rainbow” Infantry Division trained at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma following its 1943 reactivation, this souvenir volume profiles the Division’s Special Troops — the headquarters, signal, ordnance, quartermaster, band, military police, engineer, medical, and reconnaissance units that supported the Division outside its infantry regiments. It presents Major General Harry J. Collins and his staff, catalogs each unit’s officers and enlisted men with formation photographs, and reproduces leadership messages and unit mottoes from the training period. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime unit history.

Campaigns: None — this volume chronicles stateside organization and training at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, prior to the Division’s overseas deployment; no combat campaigns are covered.

Commanders: Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins (Commanding General, 42d Infantry Division); Col. Giles R. Carpenter (Division Artillery Commander); Col. Burhs Beall (Chief of Staff).

Unit publication: Rainbow Reveille

Table of Contents
Division Commander & Staff
Special Troops Headquarters
Headquarters Company
132d Signal Company
742d Ordnance Company
42d Quartermaster Company
42d Division Band
42d Division Military Police Platoon
142d Engineer Combat Battalion
122d Medical Battalion
42d Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

“Cherish them as you would your only son; guard them as you would guard your honor; love them better than you love life itself.”
— Major General Harry J. Collins, Commanding General, 42d Infantry Division