Description

342d Infantry Regiment
86th Infantry Division • World War II •

128 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
This is the 1945 pictorial review of the 342d Infantry Regiment, 86th “Black Hawk” Infantry Division, compiled at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, and printed by the Army and Navy Publishing Company of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a foreword from division commander Maj. Gen. Harris M. Melasky and a message from regimental commander Col. Christian Hildebrand. It opens with portraits of the division command and staff and photo spreads on amphibious, infantry, artillery and support-unit training, then turns to the 342d itself: regimental staff, the special companies, and company-by-company group photographs for all three battalions and the Medical Detachment, taken just before the division shipped out for Europe. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: Stateside and amphibious training (Camp Livingston, Louisiana, and Camp San Luis Obispo, California); the regiment went on to fight in the Central Europe campaign of 1945, after this book was printed.

Commanders: Maj. Gen. Harris M. Melasky (Commanding General, 86th Infantry Division); Brig. Gen. George W. Pope (Assistant Division Commander); Col. Christian Hildebrand (Commanding, 342d Infantry); Lt. Col. James W. Kirksey, Jr. (Executive Officer, 342d Infantry)

Camp newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Foreword: Message from the Commanding General, 86th Infantry Division
Division Command and General Staff
Special Staff
Headquarters Staff
Amphibious Training
What Do We Do in the Infantry? March and Drill
Combat Training
The Rifleman and His Rifle
Always Moving Up
Division Artillery: Surveying Crews
Keeping the Heavy Equipment Rolling
The 155-mm. Howitzer
Maintaining the Guns
Special Troops
Engineers
Communications: Life Line of the Army
Medical Battalion
Ordnance and Quartermaster
Message from the Regimental Commander, 342d Infantry
342d Infantry Regiment: Commander and Staff
342nd Chapel
Inspections and Field Exercises
Health and Recreation
Regimental Headquarters Company
Regimental Service Company
Regimental Anti-Tank Company
Regimental Cannon Company
First Battalion: Headquarters and Headquarters Company
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Second Battalion: Headquarters and Headquarters Company
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H
Third Battalion: Headquarters and Headquarters Company
Company I
Company K
Company L
Company M
Medical Detachment

“Trusting in our professional skills and the guiding hand of Divine Providence, we address ourselves to the tasks set for us, confident that the Regimental Motto . . . ‘EN AVANT’ will be upheld.”
— Col. Christian Hildebrand, Commanding, 342d Infantry