Description

The Trident

97th Infantry Division · World War II ·

40 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.
stateside pre-deployment training history

Document Overview

Compiled and edited by CWO Theodore H. Savage, the 97th Infantry Division’s Public Relations Officer, this unit history chronicles the “Trident” Division’s World War I origins and its 1943 reactivation and stateside training at Camp Swift, Texas, the Louisiana maneuvers, and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, profiling its commanders, regiments, and support units as they prepared for combat. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Camp Swift (Texas) activation and training · Louisiana Maneuvers · Fort Leonard Wood (Missouri) training

Commanders: Maj. Gen. Louis A. Craig · Brig. Gen. M. B. Halsey · Brig. Gen. Frank H. Partridge · Col. Sherman V. Hasbrouck · Lt. Col. Edward O. Wolf

Division newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents

The General Staff

The Special Staff

The History of the Trident

Prepared for War

303rd Infantry Regiment

386th Infantry Regiment

387th Infantry Regiment

303d Field Artillery Battalion

365th Field Artillery Battalion

389th Field Artillery Battalion

922d Field Artillery Battalion

322d Engineer Combat Battalion

322d Medical Battalion

Special Troops

Trident Sports

The Soldier and Religion

Acknowledgments

“Give me a thousand men who are entertained rather than ten thousand who have had no entertainment.”

— General John J. Pershing