Description

43rd Infantry Division — Special Units
• World War II •

144 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Published in 1942 by the Army and Navy Publishing Company as part of the 43rd Infantry Division’s Historical and Pictorial Review, this volume profiles the division’s special units — headquarters, engineers, medical, quartermaster, signal, ordnance, and cavalry reconnaissance — during their training at Camp Blanding, the Louisiana and Carolina maneuvers, and Camp Shelby, Mississippi. It includes commander biographies, unit histories, and formation photographs. This listing is a digital download of the scanned original booklet.

Campaigns: Louisiana Maneuvers (1941), Carolina Maneuvers (1941), pre-deployment training at Camp Blanding and Camp Shelby.

Commanders: Maj. Gen. John H. Hester (Commanding General), Brig. Gen. Leonard F. Wing, Brig. Gen. Harold R. Barker (Division Artillery), Col. Don F. Pratt (Chief of Staff).

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents

Headquarters and Military Police Company
118th Engineers
118th Medical Battalion
118th Quartermaster Battalion
43rd Division Signal Company
118th Ordnance Company
43rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

“Whether we write our history in Europe, Asia, Africa, or in the Americas, that history must be one of which our sons and grandsons may speak with true pride.”
— Maj. Gen. John H. Hester, Commanding, 43rd Infantry Division