The 2nd Infantry Division was created in October 1917 and took part in both world wars. Its primary mission now is the defense of South Korea in case of invasion of its northern neighbor. It has about 17,000 men and is commanded by Major-General Michael S. Tucker.
Unlike other divisions of the U.S. Army, it is partially composed of Korean soldiers, called Katus (Korean To Increase U.S. Army). This program was initiated in 1950 with the approval of the President Syngman Rhee. During the Korean conflict, 27000 Katus fought in the American armed forces. In May 2006, 1,100 of them serving in the Indian Head. "
Sheet of the 2nd Infantry Division.
• Activation date: October 26, 1917 - Present.
• Country: United States of America.
• Branch: United States Army.
• Type: Mechanized Infantry Division.
• Employees: approximately 17,000 men.
• Subordinate to: 8th U.S. Army, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK).
• Garrison Fort Lewis, Washington. Camp Casey, Camp Humphreys, Camp Stanley, South Korea.
• Nickname: or Indian Head Division Warrior.
• Motto: "Second To None" ("Sans Pareil!")
distinctive insignia • Sleeve:
• Commitments:
- First World War (1917-1918): Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry, Meuse / Argonne.
- WWII: Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Germany.
- Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, Bloody Ridge and Heartbreak Ridge.
- Global War against terrorism: Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
• Current Commander: Major-General Michael S. Tucker.
• Former notable commanders: John A. Lejeune (USMC), John CH Lee, Walter M. Robertson, Edward M. Almond, Tommy Franks and Russel Honore.
• Combat Brigades:
- 1st Brigade Combat Heavy Iron (HBCT).
- 2nd Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Strike, Destroy (SBCT).
- 3rd Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Arrowhead (SBCT).
- 4th Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Dragoon Raiders (SBCT).
- Combat Aviation Brigade (ABCT).
History (1917-2011).
1 ° World War (1917-1918).
The 2nd Infantry Division was created Sept. 21, 1917 and activated on 26 October to Bourmont, Haute-Marne. It is then composed of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, which includes the 9th and 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade of Marines with 5th and 6th Regiments, a battalion of field artillery and other support units.
Until the cessation of hostilities, this division will be commanded by two officers of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), Brigadier General Charles A. Dean then Major-General John A. Lejeune. That's the only time in history the U.S. military that General USMC command a U.S. Army division in combat.
She trains during the winter of 1917-1918 in the French army. Although still considered unprepared by the French General Staff, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) is put to the summer 1918, is desperately trying to stop the German advance towards Paris.
The 2nd Infantry Division delivers its first combat during the bloody battle of Belleau Wood (1 to June 26, 1918) and helps to stop the German advance in the area of Chateau-Thierry. On July 28, 1918, Major-General John A. Lejeune assumed command of the division and will remain in that position until August 1919, when it is demobilized. She won two more victories at Soissons and paid dearly on the hill of Mont Blanc, the north-east of Reims, hunting and the Germans in this region.
The 2nd Division Infantry Indian Head ("Indian Head") is involved in the final Allied offensive Meuse-Argonne, until the armistice on November 11, 1918. It is then sent to Germany as occupation forces until April 1919. The division returned to the United States in July 1919.
Photos below: Forage French on the left shoulder of uniform. General Graves B. Erskine, in June 1918 a platoon commander of the 6th Marine Regiment.
1.1. Major operations during the Great War.
1. Aisne.
2. Belleau Wood (4th Brigade Marines only).
3. Saint-Mihiel.
4. Meuse-Argonne offensive.
5. Aisne-Marne.
Losses incurred (1917-1918): 1964 killed U.S. Army (4478 to include the USMC Brigade) and 9782 injured (17 752).
1.2. Commanders of the 2nd Infantry Division (1917-1918).
- BG Charles A. Dean [USMC] (October 26, 1917).
- MG Omar Bundy [U.S. Army] (November 8, 1917).
- MG James G. Harbord [U.S. Army] (July 15, 1918).
- MG John A. Lejeune [USMC] (July 28, 1918).
2 Between the two World War (1919-1940).
In July 1919, after seven months in Germany in the area of Koblenz, the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division returns to the United States and paraded triumphantly through the streets of New York. The 4th Brigade of Marines was disbanded but it remains one of the three divisions of infantry force maintained by the U.S. Army during the period between the wars. She moved to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and stayed there for twenty-three years, serving as an experimental unit to test new tactics and new concept of use of the army.
In 1940, the Indian Head is reorganized following the new concept "triangle", consisting of three regiments of infantry divisions. His soldiers are developing and are pioneers in the design techniques and anti-tank air mobility, which will serve as models for the U.S. Army on the battlefield during the next two decades.
She takes part in the maneuvers of Christine, Texas from January 3 to 27, 1940. She moved temporarily to Horton, still in Texas, to participate in maneuvers from April 26 to May 28, followed by those of Cravens, Louisiana, from 16 to 23 August 1940.
The division then returned to Fort Sam Houston, where she continued her training and perfects its new combat tactics, until she moved to Brownwood, Texas, to participate in the maneuvers of the 8th U.S. Corps of 1 to June 14, 1941. The division was then sent to Mansfield, La., to take part in the maneuvers from August 11 to October 2, 1941.
Photo below: memorial of the 2nd Infantry Division opened in 1936, the President's Park Washington DC.
2.1. Commanders of divisions (1919-1941).
- COL Harry A. Eaton (December 1919 - March 1920).
- MG James G. Harbord (March 1920 - July 1921).
- MG John L. Hines (July 1921 - March 1922).
- BG Edward M. Lewis (March 1922 - May 1923).
- BG Dennis E. Nolan (May-September 1923).
- MG Ernest Hinds (September 1923 - May 1925).
- Paul B. G. Malone (May 1925 - September 1926).
- MG William D. Connor (September 1926 - January 1928).
- BG Thomas G. Donaldson (January-May 1928).
- BG Albert J. Bonley (May 1928 - December 1933).
- MG Halstead Dorey (December 1933 - October 1934).
- BG Charles Howland (October 1934 - April 1935).
- MG Frank C. Bolles (April-October 1935).
- BG Alexander T. Overshine (October 1935 - April 1936).
- MG Charles E. Kilbourne (April - June 1936).
- G. Herbert J. Brees (June-October 1936).
- MG James K. Parsons (October 1936 - May 1938).
- Frank W. G. Rowell (May 1938 - March 1939).
- MG William K. Krueger (March 1939 - October 1940).
- MG James L. Collins (October 1940 - March 1941).
- BG Edmund L. Daley (March-April 1941).
- BG John Greely (April-November 194).
3 ° World War (1941-1945).
The 2nd Infantry Division was transferred to the operating area of the U.S. 8th Corps, Louisiana, until 22 September 1942, when she returned to Fort Sam Houston. She moved to Camp McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin, November 27, 1942. After four months of intensive training at the Winter War.
In September 1943, the Indian Head finally receives its operational orders of battle and moved to Camp Shanks, New York, to prepare for his departure on the European front.
On 8 October 1943, she sailed from New York and cross the North Atlantic. She arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oct. 17. The division deploys and trains in England for Operation Overlord , the Allied landings in Normandy.
L' Indian Head traverse la Manche et débarque sur Omaha Beach à Jour J+1, le 7 juin 1944, près de Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. Traversant en force l'Aure, elle libère Trévières le 10 juin 1944, donne l'assaut et s'empare de la Colline 192, une des positions charnières de la défense allemande de Saint-Lo, le lendemain 11 juin. Elle reste ensuite en défensive sur ses positions jusqu'au 26 juillet 1944. Exploitant la percée décisive de l'opération Cobra , elle traverse la Vire et s'empare de Tinchebray, le 15 août 1944.
La division gagne ensuite la Bretagne et se joint à l'offensive de la nouvelle 3ème Armée US du général George Patton to Brest. The German fortress, defended very well, surrendered 18 September 1944, after 39 days of siege.
After a short period of rest and reorganization, from September 19 to 26, she took the helm of Belgium and moved to defensive in the area of St. Vith, 29 September 1944.
It crosses the border with Germany October 3, 1944, and was ordered to attack the dams of the Roer December 11, 1944. After the outbreak of the German offensive in the Ardennes, it is recalled emergency in the sector December 17, 1944, and with the 99th Infantry Division, digs securely on the Elsenborn Ridge, where the two American divisions will defeat all attempts of the 6th SS Panzer Army to break through to Liège and the Meuse.
In January 1945, the 2nd Infantry Division attack and cons again lost ground in December 1944. In February 1945, she participated in the American offensive against the Siegfried Line and the Allied advance towards the Rhine. It captures the town of Gemund March 4, then reached the Rhine on March 9. She advances to the south to seize Breisig and cross the river at Remagen. It helps to expand the bridgehead at Remagen from March 12 to 20.
The 2nd Infantry Division crossed the Rhine March 21, 1945 and assault and to Hadamar Limburg-an-der-Lahn, noting elements of the 9th Armored Division March 28. Then she crosses the Weser Veckerhagan, 6 and 7 April 8 April Göttingen capture, establishes a bridgehead across the Saale April 14, then seizes Merseburg April 15, 1945.
April 18, 1945, she took and crossed the Mulde Leipzig. Under the agreements established at the Yalta Conference, it exceeded the limits of the American occupation zone, and therefore must make a U-turn and back across the Mulde.
On defense on its western side, she is raised and reaches 200km to settle, between 1 and 3 May 1945, along the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia, near Schonsee Waldmünchen and where it is the 97th and 99th Infantry Divisions. It penetrates into Czechoslovakia May 4, 1945, and advance towards Pilsen, it attacks, and invests May 7, until the announcement of the cessation of hostilities, May 8, 1945. The next day, May 9, she makes contact with the Red Army.
On 3 June 1945, the division embarked at Le Havre to regain the United States. She arrives in New York harbor July 20 and is housed at Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas, July 22. She is ready to be transferred the Pacific and to take part in the invasion of Japan when the surrender occurred on 2 September.
She moved to Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California, March 28, 1946, but the current transfer is interrupted, and the division was ordered to move to Fort Lewis, near Tacoma in Washington State , where she arrived 15 April 1946. It causes them to conduct operations in the Arctic, new airlift and amphibious landing maneuvers.
3.1. Major operations (1944-1945).
- Normandy.
- Northern France.
- Race to the Rhine (Rhineland).
- Ardennes-Alsace Campaign.
- Central Europe (Germany-Czechoslovakia).
Losses incurred (1944-1945): 3031 killed (KIA), 12,785 wounded (WIA) and 457 died of wounds (DOW).
3.2. Decorations and citations (1944-1945).
- Presidential Citation (Distinguished Unit Citation): 16.
- Congressional Medal of Honor (Medal of Honor): 6.
- Cross of Merit (Distinguished Service Cross): 34.
- Merit Medal (Distinguished Service Medal): 1.
- Etoile d'Argent (Silver STAR): 741.
- Legion of Merit (Legion of Merit): 25.
- Medal Soldier (Soldier Medal): 14.
- Etoile de Bronze (Bronze Star): 5530.
- Air Medal (Air Medal): 89.
3.3. Commanders of the division (1942-1951).
- MG John CH Lee (November 1941 - May 1942).
- MG Walter M. Robertson (May 1942 - June 1945).
- BG William K. Harrison (June-September 1945).
- MG Edward M. Almond (September 1945 - June 1946).
- Paul W. G. Kendall (June 1946 - May 1948).
- Harry G. J. Collins (July 1948 - January 1951).
4 ° Korean War (1951-1953).
When hostilities began between the two Koreas during the summer of 1950, the 24th Infantry Division, stationed in Japan, is the first American unit to intervene in the conflict. The 2nd Infantry Division was quickly put on alert and soon to follow. It is transferred to the U.S. Command Far East (Far East Command) and landed in the port of Pusan July 23, 1950.
August 24, 1950, it is the 24th Division along the Naktong River, on a broad front of 65km. In the night of 31 August to 1 September 1950, at 21:30, three North Korean divisions storm positions, to cut the Taegu-Pusan road on his back. During the battle that follows, which lasts for sixteen days, the North Koreans break through the front ahead of U.S. and 8km. But finally pushes 2id Communist troops and inflicting heavy losses.
Shortly later, the 2nd Infantry Division is the first unit of the U.S. 8th Army, commanded by the Lieutenant-General Walton Walker, to launch the general offensive against-American and out of the Pusan perimeter. It is the spearhead of the 8th U.S. military and progressing north toward the Chinese border and the Yalu River.
September 15, 1950, U.S. troops of General Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the Allied forces sets of UN in the Korean peninsula, making a landing at Inchon, behind enemy lines. The North Korean forces, caught between the two attacks, have suddenly surged back and retreat in disorder to the 38th Parallel, which marks the border between the two Koreas.
The 2nd Infantry Division crossed the 38th Parallel 30 September 1950. On 9 October, the UN troops were North Korea invades and chased the North Korean army in full stampede to the Chinese border, and even have some place, and is crossed into Chinese territory. This is the case of the Indian Head , which has established a bridgehead on the opposite bank of the Yalu River, deep in a couple of kilometers.
But on the night of 25 to 26 November 1950, the People's Republic of China officially entered the Korean conflict: a half-million troops attacked U.S. positions advanced by surprise, and it's now the turn of allied troops from going back in disorder, to the south. During this hasty retreat during the Battle of the Chong-Chon River, the Indian Head protects the exposed right flank of the 8th U.S. Army.
Map below: machine-gun post in the 2nd Division in North Korea (November 20, 1950).
fighting a rearguard of the 8th U.S. Army around Kunu-ri cost the Division almost one third of its workforce. Losses are particularly high in the 23rd Infantry Regiment, which incorporates the French and Dutch Battalions and the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment, which lost all its equipment.
28 December 1950, the American troops crossed the 38th Parallel. On January 4, 1951, Seoul, the South Korean capital, fell again, this time by the Chinese. But their winter offensive s'ésouffle, and soon, the 2nd Infantry Division stopped the enemy advance during the bloody battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju (13-15 February 1951). During these actions, the Battalion Commander of French Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, incorporated in the 23rd Regiment, is particularly distinguished.
early March 1951, began the general offensive-cons ally. March 15, Seoul resumed, and the 38th Parallel crosses 21 March 1951. MacArthur, a supporter of a war with Communist China, was dismissed by President Harry Truman.
At the initiative of the Soviet Union, opened peace talks between the share of South Korea and the United States, and also North Korea and Communist China. Lieutenant General Mathhew B. Ridgeway, who now commands the 8th U.S. Army, was ordered not to launch an offensive, and soon the front stabilizes. Begins a war of positions until the cessation of hostilities.
In April and May 1951, the 2nd Infantry Division, along with other Allied units and army of South Korean (ROK), broke the Chinese spring offensive. For his actions during this period, she vera awarded a Presidential Citation (Presidential Unit Citation). Follow periods of combat alternating with periods of rest. The 2id participate in bloody battles of Bloody Ridge (Bloody Ridge), from August 18 to September 5, 1951, then from Heartbreak Ridge (Hill of Broken Hearts), from September 13 to October 15, 1951.
Peace talks, which stumbled on the issue of prisoners of war, resumed in spring 1953. In March, the Chinese finally accept the terms of the cease-fire. Nonetheless, exchanges of fire and skirmishes will continue on the front line until July 1953.
On 20 August 1954, four years after arriving in Korea, 2nd Infantry Division returned to the United States and resumed his quarters at Fort Lewis in Washington state.
Photo below: a M4A3E8 Sherman, of B Company, 72nd Tank Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division, taking positions on North Korea May 11, 1952.
Losses incurred during the conflict (1950-1953): 7094 killed in action (KIA), 16,575 wounded (WIA) and 338 died of wounds (DOW).
4.1. Honours and Awards (1950-1953).
Medal of Honor (Medal of Honor): 18.
- 9th Infantry Regiment: Loren R. Kaufman (4 and 5 September 1950), Edward C. Krzyzowski (31 August, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950), Joseph R. Ouellette (31 August, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950), David M. Smith (1 September 1950), Luther H. Story (1 September 1950) and Travis E. Watkins (August 31, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950).
- 23th Infantry Regiment: Junior D. Edwards (January 2, 1951), Hubert L. Lee (1 February 1951), Herbert K. Pililaau (September 17, 1951) John A. Pittman (November 26, 1950) and William S. Sitman (February 14, 1951).
- 38th Infantry Regiment: Tony K. Burris (8 and 9 October 1950), Frederick F. Henry (1 September 1950), Charles R. Long (February 12, 1951), Ronald E. Rosser (January 12, 1952).
- 15th Field Artillery Battalion: Lee R. Hartell (August 27, 1951).
- 2nd Reconnaissance Company: Charles W. Turner (September 1, 1950).
- Company A, 72nd Tank Battalion: MSG Ernest R. Kuma (1 September 1950).
4.2. Commanders of the division (1951-1953).
- G. Clark L. Ruffner (January 1951 - August 1951).
- BG Thomas F. DeShazo (August - September 1951).
- MG Robert N. Young (September 1951 - May 1952).
- MG James C. Fry (May 1952 - May 1953).
5 ° Reorganization in the U.S. and back in South Korea (1954-2001).
In summer 1954, the 2nd Infantry Division returned to Fort Lewis, Wash., where she remained for two years before being transferred to Alaska in August 1956.
On 8 November 1957, the division must be cleared soon. However, a few months later, au printemps 1958, le Département de l'Armée (Department of the Army) informe qu'elle sera réorganisée à Fort Benning en Géorgie, avec du personnel et de l'équipement de la 10ème Division d'infanterie de retour d'Allemagne. L' Indian Head restera casernée à Fort Benning de 1958 à 1965, date à laquelle elle est assignée dans la tâche de division d'instruction et de formation. Pour accroître son niveau de préparation et son efficacité au combat, en mars 1962, elle est désignée en tant qu'unité du Stretegic Army Corps (STRAC). La division subit dès lors une série d'entraînements intensifs à ces nouvelles tactiques.
In view of the formation of the new 1st Cavalry Division [Airmobile] at Fort Benning in 1965, the 2nd Infantry Division is assigned the personnel and equipment of the 1st Cavalry Division existing stationed in South Korea .
The Indian Head then returns in the Korean Peninsula in July 1965, eleven years after leaving. The North Korean forces were then involved in a growing number of incursions in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the 38th Parallel, and border incidents. Its mission is to stop it.
November 2, 1966, several U.S. soldiers 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment were killed in an ambush by North Koreans. In 1967, North Korean incursions are growing again, and 16 GIs killed during this year. In 1968, the North Koreans continued their provocations and 1969, four U.S. soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment are still being killed.
August 18, 1976, during a mission pruning and clearing of trees in the DMZ, two officers of the Joint Security Force (JSA) US-South Korean soldiers were killed by North Koreans. Three days later, in response, the U.S. launched Operation Paul Bunyan . This episode is known as the "Axe Murder Incident".
Majors Division (1954-2001).
- MG William L. Barriga (May 1953 - March 1954).
- MG John FR Seitz (March-August 1954).
- MG Robert L. Howze, Jr. (August-September 1954).
- Thomas G. S. Timberman (September 1954 - August 1955).
- Paul G. L. Freeman, Jr. (August 1955 - August 1956).
- MG James F. Collins (August 1956 - February 1957).
- BG John F. Ruggles (February-February 1957).
- G. Gilman O. Mudgett (February 1957 - June 1958).
- BG O. Miller Perry (June-July 1958).
- MG Robert H. Wienecke (July 1958 - February 1960).
- BG O. Miller Perry (February 1960).
- BG William L. Hardick (February-March 1960).
- Frederick W. G. Gibb (March 1960 - June 1961).
- BG William L. Hardick (June-July 1961).
- BG Charles H. White (July - August 1961).
- BG Royal Reynolds (August 1961).
- MG Charles H. Chase (August 1961 - September 1962).
- Charles G. Billengslea (September 1962 - September 1964).
- MG John H. Chiles (September 1964 - July 1965).
- MG Hugh M. Exton (July-August 1965).
- BG Robert R. Williams (August 1965).
- MG John H. Chiles (August 1965 - July 1966).
- MG George B. Pickett, Jr. (July 1966 - May 1967).
- MG Frank C. Izenour (May 1967 - June 1968).
- Leland G. G. Cagwin (June 1968 - September 1969).
- Salve G. H. Matheson (September 1969 - October 1970).
- MG GH Woodward (October 1970 - October 1971).
- MG Jeffery C. Smith (October 1971 - May 1973).
- Henry G. E. Emerson (May 1973 - May 1975).
- MG JR Thurman (May 1975 - June 1976).
- MG Morris J. Brady (June 1976 - January 1978).
- MG David E. Barn (January 1978 - June 1979).
- MG Robert C. Kingston (June 1979 - June 1981).
- MG James H. Johnson (June 1981 - November 1982).
- BG Lee D. Brown (November-December 1982).
- BG Harison H. Williams (December 1982).
- MG James H. Johnson (December 1982 - July 1983).
- Doctor Henry G. (July 1983 - August 1985).
- Gary G. E. Luck (August 1985 - December 1986).
- Jack B. G. Farris (December 1986 - June 1988).
- MG Jack D. Woodall (June 1988 - November 1989).
- Caryl G. G. Marsh (November 1989 - June 1991).
- MG James T. Scott (June 1991 - May 1993).
- MG John N. Abrams (May 1993 - March 1995).
- Tommy G. R. Franks (March 1995 - May 1997).
- Michael G. B. Sherfield (May 1997 - September 1998).
- Robert G. F. Dees (September 1998 - September 2000).
6 ° Global war against terrorism (2001-Present).
6.1. Operation Iraqi Freedom: Afghanistan.
In late spring 2004, most soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat (BCT) are told they will soon be deployed in Iraq. The units affected by this deployment, the first of the Indian Head outside Korea for four decades, includes: the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment [Air Assault], the 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment [Air Assault], the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment (M109A6 Paladin ), 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry [Mechanized] (M2 Bradley ), the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Forward Support Battalion, A Company of the 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion (MI), B Company, 122nd Signal Battalion, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment (M1A2 Abrams ), and a team from the 509th Battalion personnel department. The 2nd Brigade
began intensive training to adapt to this new theater operations to which it is accustomed. It is finally deployed to Iraq in August 2004, in Fallujah, then it is moved into the region of Ar Ramadi, where she wipes her first fatalities.
It is scattered in multiple databases. To the west of Ramadi at Camp Junction City, 2BCT HQ, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, the 44th Engineer Battalion, the 122nd Battalion Signals, and Company C [medical] 2nd Battalion Forward Support. To the east of the city in a smaller camp for post advanced combat, the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment. Farther east, near Habbiniya, the 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment. And finally, adjacent to the latter, the logistics base in Al Taqaddum, where parking the rest of the 2nd Battalion Forward Support.
During the first six months in Ramadi, the 2nd Brigade under the command of the 1st Marine Division. And during the second half of its deployment, it is placed under the authority of the 2nd Marine Division. Ironically, the opposite situation to that of the Great War, when 5th and 6th Regiments Marines found themselves incorporated within the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division.
It supports the efforts to secure the city during the Iraqi national elections in January 2005. Its mission is to protect polling stations and to end the violence that bloody the city. In July 2005, she was relieved by the 3rd Infantry Division and units of the National Guard (ARNG). It does not, however, returned to South Korea, but is quartered at Fort Carson, Colorado.
In 2007, the 3rd Brigade Combat is turn deployed in Baghdad, and fighting insurgents on several occasions in the Al-Doura on the outskirts of the capital. Sergeant Christopher B. Waiters, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, was awarded Oct. 23, 2008 Cross of Merit (Distinguished Service Cross) for his actions April 5, 2007, when he held the rank of Specialist (1) . Shortly after, the tower specialist Erik Oropeza received a second DSC for his actions May 22, 2007. These are the 17th and 18th DSC awarded to soldiers of this division since 1975.
Photos below: Fighting between soldiers of the 3rd Brigade and the insurgents in the Al-Doura in Baghdad, March 7, 2007.
Sgt Karl King and Private 1st Class (PFC) David Valenzuela, C Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. Al-Doura district, Baghdad, March 7, 2007.
Patrol recognition 3BCT-2id in Baghdad in 2007.
The 4th Brigade Combat [ Stryker] (SBCT) is deployed in Iraq at the end of 2009. On August 4, 2009, the 3rd Brigade Combat Stryker (SBCT) begins his third deployment to the Middle East.
6.2. Operation Enduring Freedom.
February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama orders the troops to Afghanistan: 4,000 troops of the former 5th Brigade Combat (now redesignated the 2nd Brigade [ Stryker ]), and 8000 Marines. They are intended to be deployed in the south-east near the Pakistani border.
6.3. Commanders of the division (2000-2010).
- MG Russel L. Honored (September 2000 - July 2002).
- MG John R. Wood (July 2002 - September 2004).
- MG George A. Higgins (September 2004 - May 2006).
- James G. A. Coggin (May 2006 - November 2007).
- MG John W. Morgan III (November 2007 - October 2009).
- Michael G. S. Tucker (October 2009 - Present).
7 ° Restructuring of the 2nd Brigade.
Since its relocation to Fort Carson in Colorado, in July 2005, the 2nd Brigade Combat undergoing profound changes. The 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment was disbanded and its colors transferred to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Italy, where he now serves alongside his battalion "brother", the 2-503 Infantry [Airborne] its personnel and equipment being transferred to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9 INF).
Similarly, the colors of the 1-506 Infantry Battalion join those of his brother in the 101st Airborne Division [Air Assault]. Its personnel and equipment transferred to the 2-12 Infantry. As the old 1-9 Infantry, he is now the new 3-61 Cavalry.
In October 2006, this 2BCT, still quartered at Fort Carson, becomes the new 4th Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division (4ID-4BCT), comprising the following units:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) (2)
- 2nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion "Special Troops" (engineering, communications, medical, PM).
- 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment.
- 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.
- 3rd Squadron [RSTA] (3) of the 61st Cavalry Regiment.
- 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment. The 5th Brigade
combat Stryker (SBCT), Fort Lewis, Wash., was redesignated the 2nd Stryker Brigade .
(1) "Specialist". Abbreviation: SPC. One of four grades "Junior" from the U.S. Army. Technically, a rank of Corporal équivallent to that (even balance), but without the status of NCO.
(2) HHC: Headquarter and Headquarter Company.
Badge distinctive round of the 2nd Infantry Division Indian Head .
Traditionally, the black color background and head of India are the two dominant races of the home division in 1917. In 1918, a driver would have painted this design on the doors of his vehicle. And the Chief of Staff of the Division, Lt. Col. Preston Brown, having noticed, would have adopted as Shoulder badge.
Originally the background color changed depending on the units and services, green for stewardship, black for the HQ, purple for sections of machine guns etc.. Only after the Great War that took the badge colors and forms became final and official badge: a five-pointed star on a black background, the spikes are in a circumference of an imaginary circle of a diameter of 3 ½ inches. In profile, the head of an Indian warrior with headdress, face red, blue bonnet, blue ends of the feathers. The star is superimposed on a shield of a size such that the tips the star to be 1/8th of an inch of the perimeter. The colors (red, white and blue) for identification division and its equipment in France during the conflict, were selected by the command of the division as colors for the badge. The star and Indian head indicate the origin of the American division.
Photo below: soldiers of the Indian Head are a badge of division "human".
Current organization of the 2nd Infantry Division.
• 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Iron (HBCT). Camp Casey Dongducheon-Seoul, South Korea.
- 1st Battalion "Special Troops" Brig.
- 302nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M2A2 Bradley ).
- 1st Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M2A2 Bradley ).
- 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M3A2 Bradley ).
- 1st Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment (M109A6 Paladin ).
• 2nd Brigade Combat Strike, Destroy [ Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 402nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment [RSTA] (3).
- 3rd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment.
- 1st Battalion "Special Troops" Brigade, including the following units:
- Company Alpha, 52nd Infantry Regiment [anti-tank].
- 562nd Engineer Company.
- 21th Signal Company.
- 572nd Military Intelligence Company.
• 3rd Brigade Combat Arrowhead [Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 296th Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment [RSTA] (3).
- 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment.
- Charlie Company, 52nd Infantry Regiment [anti-tank].
- 18th Engineer Company.
- 334th Signal Company.
- 209th Military Intelligence Company (Military Intelligence).
• 4th Brigade Combat Dragoon Riders [ Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 702nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 2nd Battalion, 23rd Régiment d'infanterie [ Stryker ].
- 1er Bataillon du 38ème Régiment d'infanterie [ Stryker ].
- 2ème Escadron du 1er Régiment de cavalerie [RSTA] (3).
- 2ème Bataillon du 12ème Régiment d'artillerie de campagne.
- Compagnie Fox, 52ème Régiment d'infanterie [Lutte antichars].
- 38ème Compagnie du génie.
- 472ème Compagnie de transmissions.
- 45ème Compagnie de renseignement militaire.
• Brigade de combat Aviation. QG Camp Humphreys, Pyeongtaek, Corée du Sud.
- QG et compagnie QG de brigade.
- 1er Bataillon du 2ème Aviation Regiment [Recognition, Attack] (AH-64D Apache ).
- 2nd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [Assault] (UH-60 Black Hawk ).
- 3rd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB)].
- 4th Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [Recognition, Attack] (AH-64D Apache ).
- 602nd Aviation Support Battalion.
• 210th Artillery Brigade (FBCT). Camp Casey, Dongducheon-Seoul, South Korea.
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion (HHB), 210th Artillery Brigade.
- 6th Battalion of the Regiment 37èle Artillery (MLRS).
- 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment (MLRS).
- 70th Support Battalion [Logistics] Brigade.
- Battery F of the 333rd Field Artillery Regiment [Acquisition of Goals].
- 579th Signal Company.
(3) RSTA: Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition.
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2 ° 2nd Infantry Division (globalsecurity.org).
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Unlike other divisions of the U.S. Army, it is partially composed of Korean soldiers, called Katus (Korean To Increase U.S. Army). This program was initiated in 1950 with the approval of the President Syngman Rhee. During the Korean conflict, 27000 Katus fought in the American armed forces. In May 2006, 1,100 of them serving in the Indian Head. "
Sheet of the 2nd Infantry Division.
• Activation date: October 26, 1917 - Present.
• Country: United States of America.
• Branch: United States Army.
• Type: Mechanized Infantry Division.
• Employees: approximately 17,000 men.
• Subordinate to: 8th U.S. Army, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK).
• Garrison Fort Lewis, Washington. Camp Casey, Camp Humphreys, Camp Stanley, South Korea.
• Nickname: or Indian Head Division Warrior.
• Motto: "Second To None" ("Sans Pareil!")
distinctive insignia • Sleeve:
• Commitments:
- First World War (1917-1918): Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry, Meuse / Argonne.
- WWII: Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Germany.
- Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, Bloody Ridge and Heartbreak Ridge.
- Global War against terrorism: Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
• Current Commander: Major-General Michael S. Tucker.
• Former notable commanders: John A. Lejeune (USMC), John CH Lee, Walter M. Robertson, Edward M. Almond, Tommy Franks and Russel Honore.
• Combat Brigades:
- 1st Brigade Combat Heavy Iron (HBCT).
- 2nd Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Strike, Destroy (SBCT).
- 3rd Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Arrowhead (SBCT).
- 4th Brigade Combat [ Stryker ] Dragoon Raiders (SBCT).
- Combat Aviation Brigade (ABCT).
History (1917-2011).
1 ° World War (1917-1918).
The 2nd Infantry Division was created Sept. 21, 1917 and activated on 26 October to Bourmont, Haute-Marne. It is then composed of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, which includes the 9th and 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade of Marines with 5th and 6th Regiments, a battalion of field artillery and other support units.
Until the cessation of hostilities, this division will be commanded by two officers of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), Brigadier General Charles A. Dean then Major-General John A. Lejeune. That's the only time in history the U.S. military that General USMC command a U.S. Army division in combat.
She trains during the winter of 1917-1918 in the French army. Although still considered unprepared by the French General Staff, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) is put to the summer 1918, is desperately trying to stop the German advance towards Paris.
The 2nd Infantry Division delivers its first combat during the bloody battle of Belleau Wood (1 to June 26, 1918) and helps to stop the German advance in the area of Chateau-Thierry. On July 28, 1918, Major-General John A. Lejeune assumed command of the division and will remain in that position until August 1919, when it is demobilized. She won two more victories at Soissons and paid dearly on the hill of Mont Blanc, the north-east of Reims, hunting and the Germans in this region.
The 2nd Division Infantry Indian Head ("Indian Head") is involved in the final Allied offensive Meuse-Argonne, until the armistice on November 11, 1918. It is then sent to Germany as occupation forces until April 1919. The division returned to the United States in July 1919.
Photos below: Forage French on the left shoulder of uniform. General Graves B. Erskine, in June 1918 a platoon commander of the 6th Marine Regiment.
1.1. Major operations during the Great War.
1. Aisne.
2. Belleau Wood (4th Brigade Marines only).
3. Saint-Mihiel.
4. Meuse-Argonne offensive.
5. Aisne-Marne.
Losses incurred (1917-1918): 1964 killed U.S. Army (4478 to include the USMC Brigade) and 9782 injured (17 752).
1.2. Commanders of the 2nd Infantry Division (1917-1918).
- BG Charles A. Dean [USMC] (October 26, 1917).
- MG Omar Bundy [U.S. Army] (November 8, 1917).
- MG James G. Harbord [U.S. Army] (July 15, 1918).
- MG John A. Lejeune [USMC] (July 28, 1918).
2 Between the two World War (1919-1940).
In July 1919, after seven months in Germany in the area of Koblenz, the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division returns to the United States and paraded triumphantly through the streets of New York. The 4th Brigade of Marines was disbanded but it remains one of the three divisions of infantry force maintained by the U.S. Army during the period between the wars. She moved to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and stayed there for twenty-three years, serving as an experimental unit to test new tactics and new concept of use of the army.
In 1940, the Indian Head is reorganized following the new concept "triangle", consisting of three regiments of infantry divisions. His soldiers are developing and are pioneers in the design techniques and anti-tank air mobility, which will serve as models for the U.S. Army on the battlefield during the next two decades.
She takes part in the maneuvers of Christine, Texas from January 3 to 27, 1940. She moved temporarily to Horton, still in Texas, to participate in maneuvers from April 26 to May 28, followed by those of Cravens, Louisiana, from 16 to 23 August 1940.
The division then returned to Fort Sam Houston, where she continued her training and perfects its new combat tactics, until she moved to Brownwood, Texas, to participate in the maneuvers of the 8th U.S. Corps of 1 to June 14, 1941. The division was then sent to Mansfield, La., to take part in the maneuvers from August 11 to October 2, 1941.
Photo below: memorial of the 2nd Infantry Division opened in 1936, the President's Park Washington DC.
2.1. Commanders of divisions (1919-1941).
- COL Harry A. Eaton (December 1919 - March 1920).
- MG James G. Harbord (March 1920 - July 1921).
- MG John L. Hines (July 1921 - March 1922).
- BG Edward M. Lewis (March 1922 - May 1923).
- BG Dennis E. Nolan (May-September 1923).
- MG Ernest Hinds (September 1923 - May 1925).
- Paul B. G. Malone (May 1925 - September 1926).
- MG William D. Connor (September 1926 - January 1928).
- BG Thomas G. Donaldson (January-May 1928).
- BG Albert J. Bonley (May 1928 - December 1933).
- MG Halstead Dorey (December 1933 - October 1934).
- BG Charles Howland (October 1934 - April 1935).
- MG Frank C. Bolles (April-October 1935).
- BG Alexander T. Overshine (October 1935 - April 1936).
- MG Charles E. Kilbourne (April - June 1936).
- G. Herbert J. Brees (June-October 1936).
- MG James K. Parsons (October 1936 - May 1938).
- Frank W. G. Rowell (May 1938 - March 1939).
- MG William K. Krueger (March 1939 - October 1940).
- MG James L. Collins (October 1940 - March 1941).
- BG Edmund L. Daley (March-April 1941).
- BG John Greely (April-November 194).
3 ° World War (1941-1945).
The 2nd Infantry Division was transferred to the operating area of the U.S. 8th Corps, Louisiana, until 22 September 1942, when she returned to Fort Sam Houston. She moved to Camp McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin, November 27, 1942. After four months of intensive training at the Winter War.
In September 1943, the Indian Head finally receives its operational orders of battle and moved to Camp Shanks, New York, to prepare for his departure on the European front.
On 8 October 1943, she sailed from New York and cross the North Atlantic. She arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oct. 17. The division deploys and trains in England for Operation Overlord , the Allied landings in Normandy.
L' Indian Head traverse la Manche et débarque sur Omaha Beach à Jour J+1, le 7 juin 1944, près de Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. Traversant en force l'Aure, elle libère Trévières le 10 juin 1944, donne l'assaut et s'empare de la Colline 192, une des positions charnières de la défense allemande de Saint-Lo, le lendemain 11 juin. Elle reste ensuite en défensive sur ses positions jusqu'au 26 juillet 1944. Exploitant la percée décisive de l'opération Cobra , elle traverse la Vire et s'empare de Tinchebray, le 15 août 1944.
La division gagne ensuite la Bretagne et se joint à l'offensive de la nouvelle 3ème Armée US du général George Patton to Brest. The German fortress, defended very well, surrendered 18 September 1944, after 39 days of siege.
After a short period of rest and reorganization, from September 19 to 26, she took the helm of Belgium and moved to defensive in the area of St. Vith, 29 September 1944.
It crosses the border with Germany October 3, 1944, and was ordered to attack the dams of the Roer December 11, 1944. After the outbreak of the German offensive in the Ardennes, it is recalled emergency in the sector December 17, 1944, and with the 99th Infantry Division, digs securely on the Elsenborn Ridge, where the two American divisions will defeat all attempts of the 6th SS Panzer Army to break through to Liège and the Meuse.
In January 1945, the 2nd Infantry Division attack and cons again lost ground in December 1944. In February 1945, she participated in the American offensive against the Siegfried Line and the Allied advance towards the Rhine. It captures the town of Gemund March 4, then reached the Rhine on March 9. She advances to the south to seize Breisig and cross the river at Remagen. It helps to expand the bridgehead at Remagen from March 12 to 20.
The 2nd Infantry Division crossed the Rhine March 21, 1945 and assault and to Hadamar Limburg-an-der-Lahn, noting elements of the 9th Armored Division March 28. Then she crosses the Weser Veckerhagan, 6 and 7 April 8 April Göttingen capture, establishes a bridgehead across the Saale April 14, then seizes Merseburg April 15, 1945.
April 18, 1945, she took and crossed the Mulde Leipzig. Under the agreements established at the Yalta Conference, it exceeded the limits of the American occupation zone, and therefore must make a U-turn and back across the Mulde.
On defense on its western side, she is raised and reaches 200km to settle, between 1 and 3 May 1945, along the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia, near Schonsee Waldmünchen and where it is the 97th and 99th Infantry Divisions. It penetrates into Czechoslovakia May 4, 1945, and advance towards Pilsen, it attacks, and invests May 7, until the announcement of the cessation of hostilities, May 8, 1945. The next day, May 9, she makes contact with the Red Army.
On 3 June 1945, the division embarked at Le Havre to regain the United States. She arrives in New York harbor July 20 and is housed at Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas, July 22. She is ready to be transferred the Pacific and to take part in the invasion of Japan when the surrender occurred on 2 September.
She moved to Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California, March 28, 1946, but the current transfer is interrupted, and the division was ordered to move to Fort Lewis, near Tacoma in Washington State , where she arrived 15 April 1946. It causes them to conduct operations in the Arctic, new airlift and amphibious landing maneuvers.
3.1. Major operations (1944-1945).
- Normandy.
- Northern France.
- Race to the Rhine (Rhineland).
- Ardennes-Alsace Campaign.
- Central Europe (Germany-Czechoslovakia).
Losses incurred (1944-1945): 3031 killed (KIA), 12,785 wounded (WIA) and 457 died of wounds (DOW).
3.2. Decorations and citations (1944-1945).
- Presidential Citation (Distinguished Unit Citation): 16.
- Congressional Medal of Honor (Medal of Honor): 6.
- Cross of Merit (Distinguished Service Cross): 34.
- Merit Medal (Distinguished Service Medal): 1.
- Etoile d'Argent (Silver STAR): 741.
- Legion of Merit (Legion of Merit): 25.
- Medal Soldier (Soldier Medal): 14.
- Etoile de Bronze (Bronze Star): 5530.
- Air Medal (Air Medal): 89.
3.3. Commanders of the division (1942-1951).
- MG John CH Lee (November 1941 - May 1942).
- MG Walter M. Robertson (May 1942 - June 1945).
- BG William K. Harrison (June-September 1945).
- MG Edward M. Almond (September 1945 - June 1946).
- Paul W. G. Kendall (June 1946 - May 1948).
- Harry G. J. Collins (July 1948 - January 1951).
4 ° Korean War (1951-1953).
When hostilities began between the two Koreas during the summer of 1950, the 24th Infantry Division, stationed in Japan, is the first American unit to intervene in the conflict. The 2nd Infantry Division was quickly put on alert and soon to follow. It is transferred to the U.S. Command Far East (Far East Command) and landed in the port of Pusan July 23, 1950.
August 24, 1950, it is the 24th Division along the Naktong River, on a broad front of 65km. In the night of 31 August to 1 September 1950, at 21:30, three North Korean divisions storm positions, to cut the Taegu-Pusan road on his back. During the battle that follows, which lasts for sixteen days, the North Koreans break through the front ahead of U.S. and 8km. But finally pushes 2id Communist troops and inflicting heavy losses.
Shortly later, the 2nd Infantry Division is the first unit of the U.S. 8th Army, commanded by the Lieutenant-General Walton Walker, to launch the general offensive against-American and out of the Pusan perimeter. It is the spearhead of the 8th U.S. military and progressing north toward the Chinese border and the Yalu River.
September 15, 1950, U.S. troops of General Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the Allied forces sets of UN in the Korean peninsula, making a landing at Inchon, behind enemy lines. The North Korean forces, caught between the two attacks, have suddenly surged back and retreat in disorder to the 38th Parallel, which marks the border between the two Koreas.
The 2nd Infantry Division crossed the 38th Parallel 30 September 1950. On 9 October, the UN troops were North Korea invades and chased the North Korean army in full stampede to the Chinese border, and even have some place, and is crossed into Chinese territory. This is the case of the Indian Head , which has established a bridgehead on the opposite bank of the Yalu River, deep in a couple of kilometers.
But on the night of 25 to 26 November 1950, the People's Republic of China officially entered the Korean conflict: a half-million troops attacked U.S. positions advanced by surprise, and it's now the turn of allied troops from going back in disorder, to the south. During this hasty retreat during the Battle of the Chong-Chon River, the Indian Head protects the exposed right flank of the 8th U.S. Army.
Map below: machine-gun post in the 2nd Division in North Korea (November 20, 1950).
fighting a rearguard of the 8th U.S. Army around Kunu-ri cost the Division almost one third of its workforce. Losses are particularly high in the 23rd Infantry Regiment, which incorporates the French and Dutch Battalions and the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment, which lost all its equipment.
28 December 1950, the American troops crossed the 38th Parallel. On January 4, 1951, Seoul, the South Korean capital, fell again, this time by the Chinese. But their winter offensive s'ésouffle, and soon, the 2nd Infantry Division stopped the enemy advance during the bloody battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju (13-15 February 1951). During these actions, the Battalion Commander of French Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, incorporated in the 23rd Regiment, is particularly distinguished.
early March 1951, began the general offensive-cons ally. March 15, Seoul resumed, and the 38th Parallel crosses 21 March 1951. MacArthur, a supporter of a war with Communist China, was dismissed by President Harry Truman.
At the initiative of the Soviet Union, opened peace talks between the share of South Korea and the United States, and also North Korea and Communist China. Lieutenant General Mathhew B. Ridgeway, who now commands the 8th U.S. Army, was ordered not to launch an offensive, and soon the front stabilizes. Begins a war of positions until the cessation of hostilities.
In April and May 1951, the 2nd Infantry Division, along with other Allied units and army of South Korean (ROK), broke the Chinese spring offensive. For his actions during this period, she vera awarded a Presidential Citation (Presidential Unit Citation). Follow periods of combat alternating with periods of rest. The 2id participate in bloody battles of Bloody Ridge (Bloody Ridge), from August 18 to September 5, 1951, then from Heartbreak Ridge (Hill of Broken Hearts), from September 13 to October 15, 1951.
Peace talks, which stumbled on the issue of prisoners of war, resumed in spring 1953. In March, the Chinese finally accept the terms of the cease-fire. Nonetheless, exchanges of fire and skirmishes will continue on the front line until July 1953.
On 20 August 1954, four years after arriving in Korea, 2nd Infantry Division returned to the United States and resumed his quarters at Fort Lewis in Washington state.
Photo below: a M4A3E8 Sherman, of B Company, 72nd Tank Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division, taking positions on North Korea May 11, 1952.
Losses incurred during the conflict (1950-1953): 7094 killed in action (KIA), 16,575 wounded (WIA) and 338 died of wounds (DOW).
4.1. Honours and Awards (1950-1953).
Medal of Honor (Medal of Honor): 18.
- 9th Infantry Regiment: Loren R. Kaufman (4 and 5 September 1950), Edward C. Krzyzowski (31 August, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950), Joseph R. Ouellette (31 August, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950), David M. Smith (1 September 1950), Luther H. Story (1 September 1950) and Travis E. Watkins (August 31, 1, 2 and 3 September 1950).
- 23th Infantry Regiment: Junior D. Edwards (January 2, 1951), Hubert L. Lee (1 February 1951), Herbert K. Pililaau (September 17, 1951) John A. Pittman (November 26, 1950) and William S. Sitman (February 14, 1951).
- 38th Infantry Regiment: Tony K. Burris (8 and 9 October 1950), Frederick F. Henry (1 September 1950), Charles R. Long (February 12, 1951), Ronald E. Rosser (January 12, 1952).
- 15th Field Artillery Battalion: Lee R. Hartell (August 27, 1951).
- 2nd Reconnaissance Company: Charles W. Turner (September 1, 1950).
- Company A, 72nd Tank Battalion: MSG Ernest R. Kuma (1 September 1950).
4.2. Commanders of the division (1951-1953).
- G. Clark L. Ruffner (January 1951 - August 1951).
- BG Thomas F. DeShazo (August - September 1951).
- MG Robert N. Young (September 1951 - May 1952).
- MG James C. Fry (May 1952 - May 1953).
5 ° Reorganization in the U.S. and back in South Korea (1954-2001).
In summer 1954, the 2nd Infantry Division returned to Fort Lewis, Wash., where she remained for two years before being transferred to Alaska in August 1956.
On 8 November 1957, the division must be cleared soon. However, a few months later, au printemps 1958, le Département de l'Armée (Department of the Army) informe qu'elle sera réorganisée à Fort Benning en Géorgie, avec du personnel et de l'équipement de la 10ème Division d'infanterie de retour d'Allemagne. L' Indian Head restera casernée à Fort Benning de 1958 à 1965, date à laquelle elle est assignée dans la tâche de division d'instruction et de formation. Pour accroître son niveau de préparation et son efficacité au combat, en mars 1962, elle est désignée en tant qu'unité du Stretegic Army Corps (STRAC). La division subit dès lors une série d'entraînements intensifs à ces nouvelles tactiques.
In view of the formation of the new 1st Cavalry Division [Airmobile] at Fort Benning in 1965, the 2nd Infantry Division is assigned the personnel and equipment of the 1st Cavalry Division existing stationed in South Korea .
The Indian Head then returns in the Korean Peninsula in July 1965, eleven years after leaving. The North Korean forces were then involved in a growing number of incursions in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the 38th Parallel, and border incidents. Its mission is to stop it.
November 2, 1966, several U.S. soldiers 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment were killed in an ambush by North Koreans. In 1967, North Korean incursions are growing again, and 16 GIs killed during this year. In 1968, the North Koreans continued their provocations and 1969, four U.S. soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment are still being killed.
August 18, 1976, during a mission pruning and clearing of trees in the DMZ, two officers of the Joint Security Force (JSA) US-South Korean soldiers were killed by North Koreans. Three days later, in response, the U.S. launched Operation Paul Bunyan . This episode is known as the "Axe Murder Incident".
Majors Division (1954-2001).
- MG William L. Barriga (May 1953 - March 1954).
- MG John FR Seitz (March-August 1954).
- MG Robert L. Howze, Jr. (August-September 1954).
- Thomas G. S. Timberman (September 1954 - August 1955).
- Paul G. L. Freeman, Jr. (August 1955 - August 1956).
- MG James F. Collins (August 1956 - February 1957).
- BG John F. Ruggles (February-February 1957).
- G. Gilman O. Mudgett (February 1957 - June 1958).
- BG O. Miller Perry (June-July 1958).
- MG Robert H. Wienecke (July 1958 - February 1960).
- BG O. Miller Perry (February 1960).
- BG William L. Hardick (February-March 1960).
- Frederick W. G. Gibb (March 1960 - June 1961).
- BG William L. Hardick (June-July 1961).
- BG Charles H. White (July - August 1961).
- BG Royal Reynolds (August 1961).
- MG Charles H. Chase (August 1961 - September 1962).
- Charles G. Billengslea (September 1962 - September 1964).
- MG John H. Chiles (September 1964 - July 1965).
- MG Hugh M. Exton (July-August 1965).
- BG Robert R. Williams (August 1965).
- MG John H. Chiles (August 1965 - July 1966).
- MG George B. Pickett, Jr. (July 1966 - May 1967).
- MG Frank C. Izenour (May 1967 - June 1968).
- Leland G. G. Cagwin (June 1968 - September 1969).
- Salve G. H. Matheson (September 1969 - October 1970).
- MG GH Woodward (October 1970 - October 1971).
- MG Jeffery C. Smith (October 1971 - May 1973).
- Henry G. E. Emerson (May 1973 - May 1975).
- MG JR Thurman (May 1975 - June 1976).
- MG Morris J. Brady (June 1976 - January 1978).
- MG David E. Barn (January 1978 - June 1979).
- MG Robert C. Kingston (June 1979 - June 1981).
- MG James H. Johnson (June 1981 - November 1982).
- BG Lee D. Brown (November-December 1982).
- BG Harison H. Williams (December 1982).
- MG James H. Johnson (December 1982 - July 1983).
- Doctor Henry G. (July 1983 - August 1985).
- Gary G. E. Luck (August 1985 - December 1986).
- Jack B. G. Farris (December 1986 - June 1988).
- MG Jack D. Woodall (June 1988 - November 1989).
- Caryl G. G. Marsh (November 1989 - June 1991).
- MG James T. Scott (June 1991 - May 1993).
- MG John N. Abrams (May 1993 - March 1995).
- Tommy G. R. Franks (March 1995 - May 1997).
- Michael G. B. Sherfield (May 1997 - September 1998).
- Robert G. F. Dees (September 1998 - September 2000).
6 ° Global war against terrorism (2001-Present).
6.1. Operation Iraqi Freedom: Afghanistan.
In late spring 2004, most soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat (BCT) are told they will soon be deployed in Iraq. The units affected by this deployment, the first of the Indian Head outside Korea for four decades, includes: the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment [Air Assault], the 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment [Air Assault], the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment (M109A6 Paladin ), 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry [Mechanized] (M2 Bradley ), the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Forward Support Battalion, A Company of the 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion (MI), B Company, 122nd Signal Battalion, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment (M1A2 Abrams ), and a team from the 509th Battalion personnel department. The 2nd Brigade
began intensive training to adapt to this new theater operations to which it is accustomed. It is finally deployed to Iraq in August 2004, in Fallujah, then it is moved into the region of Ar Ramadi, where she wipes her first fatalities.
It is scattered in multiple databases. To the west of Ramadi at Camp Junction City, 2BCT HQ, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, the 44th Engineer Battalion, the 122nd Battalion Signals, and Company C [medical] 2nd Battalion Forward Support. To the east of the city in a smaller camp for post advanced combat, the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment. Farther east, near Habbiniya, the 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment. And finally, adjacent to the latter, the logistics base in Al Taqaddum, where parking the rest of the 2nd Battalion Forward Support.
During the first six months in Ramadi, the 2nd Brigade under the command of the 1st Marine Division. And during the second half of its deployment, it is placed under the authority of the 2nd Marine Division. Ironically, the opposite situation to that of the Great War, when 5th and 6th Regiments Marines found themselves incorporated within the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division.
It supports the efforts to secure the city during the Iraqi national elections in January 2005. Its mission is to protect polling stations and to end the violence that bloody the city. In July 2005, she was relieved by the 3rd Infantry Division and units of the National Guard (ARNG). It does not, however, returned to South Korea, but is quartered at Fort Carson, Colorado.
In 2007, the 3rd Brigade Combat is turn deployed in Baghdad, and fighting insurgents on several occasions in the Al-Doura on the outskirts of the capital. Sergeant Christopher B. Waiters, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, was awarded Oct. 23, 2008 Cross of Merit (Distinguished Service Cross) for his actions April 5, 2007, when he held the rank of Specialist (1) . Shortly after, the tower specialist Erik Oropeza received a second DSC for his actions May 22, 2007. These are the 17th and 18th DSC awarded to soldiers of this division since 1975.
Photos below: Fighting between soldiers of the 3rd Brigade and the insurgents in the Al-Doura in Baghdad, March 7, 2007.
Sgt Karl King and Private 1st Class (PFC) David Valenzuela, C Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. Al-Doura district, Baghdad, March 7, 2007.
Patrol recognition 3BCT-2id in Baghdad in 2007.
The 4th Brigade Combat [ Stryker] (SBCT) is deployed in Iraq at the end of 2009. On August 4, 2009, the 3rd Brigade Combat Stryker (SBCT) begins his third deployment to the Middle East.
6.2. Operation Enduring Freedom.
February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama orders the troops to Afghanistan: 4,000 troops of the former 5th Brigade Combat (now redesignated the 2nd Brigade [ Stryker ]), and 8000 Marines. They are intended to be deployed in the south-east near the Pakistani border.
6.3. Commanders of the division (2000-2010).
- MG Russel L. Honored (September 2000 - July 2002).
- MG John R. Wood (July 2002 - September 2004).
- MG George A. Higgins (September 2004 - May 2006).
- James G. A. Coggin (May 2006 - November 2007).
- MG John W. Morgan III (November 2007 - October 2009).
- Michael G. S. Tucker (October 2009 - Present).
7 ° Restructuring of the 2nd Brigade.
Since its relocation to Fort Carson in Colorado, in July 2005, the 2nd Brigade Combat undergoing profound changes. The 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment was disbanded and its colors transferred to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Italy, where he now serves alongside his battalion "brother", the 2-503 Infantry [Airborne] its personnel and equipment being transferred to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9 INF).
Similarly, the colors of the 1-506 Infantry Battalion join those of his brother in the 101st Airborne Division [Air Assault]. Its personnel and equipment transferred to the 2-12 Infantry. As the old 1-9 Infantry, he is now the new 3-61 Cavalry.
In October 2006, this 2BCT, still quartered at Fort Carson, becomes the new 4th Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division (4ID-4BCT), comprising the following units:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) (2)
- 2nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion "Special Troops" (engineering, communications, medical, PM).
- 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment.
- 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.
- 3rd Squadron [RSTA] (3) of the 61st Cavalry Regiment.
- 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment. The 5th Brigade
combat Stryker (SBCT), Fort Lewis, Wash., was redesignated the 2nd Stryker Brigade .
(1) "Specialist". Abbreviation: SPC. One of four grades "Junior" from the U.S. Army. Technically, a rank of Corporal équivallent to that (even balance), but without the status of NCO.
(2) HHC: Headquarter and Headquarter Company.
Badge distinctive round of the 2nd Infantry Division Indian Head .
Traditionally, the black color background and head of India are the two dominant races of the home division in 1917. In 1918, a driver would have painted this design on the doors of his vehicle. And the Chief of Staff of the Division, Lt. Col. Preston Brown, having noticed, would have adopted as Shoulder badge.
Originally the background color changed depending on the units and services, green for stewardship, black for the HQ, purple for sections of machine guns etc.. Only after the Great War that took the badge colors and forms became final and official badge: a five-pointed star on a black background, the spikes are in a circumference of an imaginary circle of a diameter of 3 ½ inches. In profile, the head of an Indian warrior with headdress, face red, blue bonnet, blue ends of the feathers. The star is superimposed on a shield of a size such that the tips the star to be 1/8th of an inch of the perimeter. The colors (red, white and blue) for identification division and its equipment in France during the conflict, were selected by the command of the division as colors for the badge. The star and Indian head indicate the origin of the American division.
Photo below: soldiers of the Indian Head are a badge of division "human".
Current organization of the 2nd Infantry Division.
• 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Iron (HBCT). Camp Casey Dongducheon-Seoul, South Korea.
- 1st Battalion "Special Troops" Brig.
- 302nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M2A2 Bradley ).
- 1st Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M2A2 Bradley ).
- 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment (M1A1 Abrams and M3A2 Bradley ).
- 1st Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment (M109A6 Paladin ).
• 2nd Brigade Combat Strike, Destroy [ Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 402nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment [RSTA] (3).
- 3rd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment.
- 1st Battalion "Special Troops" Brigade, including the following units:
- Company Alpha, 52nd Infantry Regiment [anti-tank].
- 562nd Engineer Company.
- 21th Signal Company.
- 572nd Military Intelligence Company.
• 3rd Brigade Combat Arrowhead [Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 296th Brigade Support Battalion.
- 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker ).
- 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment [RSTA] (3).
- 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment.
- Charlie Company, 52nd Infantry Regiment [anti-tank].
- 18th Engineer Company.
- 334th Signal Company.
- 209th Military Intelligence Company (Military Intelligence).
• 4th Brigade Combat Dragoon Riders [ Stryker] (SBCT). Fort Lewis, Washington.
- Company headquarters brigade.
- 702nd Brigade Support Battalion.
- 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment [ Stryker ].
- 2nd Battalion, 23rd Régiment d'infanterie [ Stryker ].
- 1er Bataillon du 38ème Régiment d'infanterie [ Stryker ].
- 2ème Escadron du 1er Régiment de cavalerie [RSTA] (3).
- 2ème Bataillon du 12ème Régiment d'artillerie de campagne.
- Compagnie Fox, 52ème Régiment d'infanterie [Lutte antichars].
- 38ème Compagnie du génie.
- 472ème Compagnie de transmissions.
- 45ème Compagnie de renseignement militaire.
• Brigade de combat Aviation. QG Camp Humphreys, Pyeongtaek, Corée du Sud.
- QG et compagnie QG de brigade.
- 1er Bataillon du 2ème Aviation Regiment [Recognition, Attack] (AH-64D Apache ).
- 2nd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [Assault] (UH-60 Black Hawk ).
- 3rd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB)].
- 4th Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [Recognition, Attack] (AH-64D Apache ).
- 602nd Aviation Support Battalion.
• 210th Artillery Brigade (FBCT). Camp Casey, Dongducheon-Seoul, South Korea.
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion (HHB), 210th Artillery Brigade.
- 6th Battalion of the Regiment 37èle Artillery (MLRS).
- 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment (MLRS).
- 70th Support Battalion [Logistics] Brigade.
- Battery F of the 333rd Field Artillery Regiment [Acquisition of Goals].
- 579th Signal Company.
(3) RSTA: Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition.
Sources available: 1
2nd Infantry Division (United States) (en.wikipedia.org).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_ (United_States)
2 ° 2nd Infantry Division (globalsecurity.org).
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/2id.htm
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