Description

COMBAT HISTORY OF THE SECOND INFANTRY DIVISION
212 pages scanned

World War II — Document Summary

Major Campaigns
Part I: Normandy
Part II: The Breton Peninsula
Part III: Belgium
Part IV: The Ardennes
Part V: The Rhineland
Part VI: Central Germany
Part VII: Czechoslovakia

Chapter Titles
Chapter I: INVASION
Chapter II: THE ELLES
Chapter III: HILL 192
Chapter IV: THE NORMANDY BREAKTHROUGH
Chapter V: ON THE VIRE
Chapter VI: ADVANCE TO TINCHEBRAY
Chapter VII: FORTRESS BREST
Chapter VIII: THE OUTER RING
Chapter IX: THE FALL OF BREST
Chapter X: ST. VITH
Chapter XI: WAHLERSCHEID CROSSROADS
Chapter XII: THE Wehrmacht STRIKES
Chapter XIII: ELSENBORN AND THE PASS
Chapter XIV: THROUGH THE SIEGFRIED LINE
Chapter XV: GEMUND AND TO THE RHINE
Chapter XVI: CROSSING THE RHINE
Chapter XVII: PURSUIT
Chapter XVIII: TO LEIPZIG
Chapter XIX: THE MULDE RIVER
Chapter XX: CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Chapter XXI: PILZEN
Chapter XXII: AND HOME

Roster of Officers and Men Killed in Action
Present at the end of the book. Lists KIA by unit, including: Headquarters Company, 2nd CIC Detachment, Military Police Platoon, 2nd Infantry Division Band, 702nd Ordnance Company, 2nd Quartermaster Company, 2nd Reconnaissance Troop, 2nd Signal Company, and all infantry and support units.

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
The following members of the 2nd Infantry Division were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor:
• Sergeant John J. McVeigh, 23rd Infantry
• Staff Sergeant Alvin P. Carey, 38th Infantry
• Technician Fourth Grade Truman Kimbro, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion
• Private First Class Richard E. Cowan, 23rd Infantry
• Sergeant Jose M. Lopez, 23rd Infantry
• Private William A. Soderman, 9th Infantry

Distinguished Service Cross Recipients
Listed at the end of the book, including Major General Walter M. Robertson, Colonel Chester J. Hirschfelder, Staff Sergeant Gayln Clay, and others with Oak Leaf Clusters.

Battle Honors
A section listing the Division’s battle honors from both World War I (including Croix de Guerre for action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918) and World War II campaigns.

Town Names Mentioned on Maps / Route Illustrations
The following town and city names appear on the route map and pictorial illustrations in the document:
• Cardiff
• Amiens
• Compiègne
• Rennes
• Le Havre
• Trévier
• Brest
• Vire
• Tinchebray
• Brussels
• St. Quentin
• Paris
• Elsenborn
• St. Vith
• Kassel
• Giessen
• Domazlice
• Heilbronn
• Plzen (Pilzen)
• Sondershausen
• Warburg
• Göttingen
• Antwerp
• Berlin
• Liège
• Koblenz
• Marche
• Reims
• Camp Norfolk
• Nancy
• Merseburg
• Leipzig
• Grimma
• Bayreuth
• Nürnberg
• Ansbach
• Munich
• Chemnitz
• Prague
• Mannheim
• Baireuth
• Luxembourg