Name NAMED CAMPAIGNS OF THE KOREAN WAR AND UN Defensive a 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div Date .27 June-15 September 1950 ..16 September-2 November 1950 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div CCF Intervention UN Offensive 3 November 1950-24 January 1951 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div First UN Counteroffensive ..25 January-21 April 1951 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div CCF Spring Offensive .22 April-8 July 1951 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div UN Summer-Fall Offensive .9 July-27 November 1951 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div Second Korean Winter .28 November 1951-30 April 1952 1st Cav Div, 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div, 40th Inf Div, 45th Inf Div Korea Summer-Fall 1952 .1 May-30 November 1952 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div, 40th Inf Div, 45th Inf Div Third Korean Winter .1 December 1952-30 April 1953 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div, 40th Inf Div, 45th Inf Div Korea Summer-Fall 1953 .1 May-27 July 1953 2d Inf Div, 3d Inf Div, 7th Inf Div, 24th Inf Div, 25th Inf Div, 40th Inf Div, 45th Inf Div ASSAULT LANDINGS IN THE KOREAN WAR No U.S. Army division received credit for either amphibious or airborne assault landings in the Korean War. The 137th Airborne Regimental Combat Team was credited with airborne assault landings at Sunchon-Sukchon, Korea, 1350 to 1400 hours, 20 October 1950, and at Munsan-ni, Korea, 0900 to 1000 hours, 23 March 1951. All divisional ordnance companies were reorganized and redesignated ordnance battalions 1 February 1953. COMBAT RECORD OF FIELD ARMIES, WORLD WAR I, WORLD FIRST UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Black, block style letter A on an olive drab background. Organized as First Army 4 July 1918 at La Ferte-sous-Juarre, France Reconstituted in the Organized Reserves 28 August 1924 and activated at New York, Activated 1 October 1933 at Governor's Island, New York a AR 220-105, 8 Aug 57. COMBAT RECORD World War I Overseas: July 1918 Campaigns: Lorraine, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne Commanders: General John J. Pershing Lt Gen Hunter Liggett (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 11 November 1918) Disbanded in France: 30 April 1919 Overseas: October 1943 World War II .10 August 1918 .16 October 1918 .1 November 1918 Campaigns: Normandy (with arrowhead), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe Commanders: Lt Gen George Grunert General Omar N. Bradley General Courtney H. Hodges (Commanding army at termination of hostilities 8 May 1945) Return to United States: June 1945 The Genesis of the American First Army. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1938. A Brief History of the First United States Army from 1918 to 1946. Worth Printing Company, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1947. First United States Army Combat Operations Data, Europe 1944-1945. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1948. Cross-Channel Attack, by Gordon A. Harrison. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1951. (One volume of a series entitled THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, prepared in the Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, D. C.) SECOND UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Arabic numeral 2, the upper half in red and the lower half in white, on an olive drab background. Lineage Organized as Second Army 20 September 1918 at Toul, France Disbanded 15 April 1919 at Toul, France Reconstituted 9 August 1932 in the Regular Army Activated 1 October 1933 at Chicago, Illinois Redesignated Second United States Army 1 January 1957 The Second United States Army had no combat record in World War II. Its primary mission was the training of tactical units to operate effectively in combat. 1921. Unit Histories Review of the American Forces in Germany, by James G. Adams, Coblenz, Germany, History of the Second Army, by Maj Bell I. Wiley and Capt. William P. Govan, Washington, D. C., 1946. (N. P. Army Ground Force Study No. 16.) THIRD UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: A circular blue field containing a white letter "A" surrounded by a red "O." Lineage Organized as Third Army 15 November 1918 at Ligny-en-Barrois, France Disbanded 2 July 1919 in Germany Reconstituted in the Organized Reserves 15 October 1921 Organized April 1922 at St. Louis, Missouri Withdrawn from the Organized Reserves 9 August 1932 and allotted to the Regular Army as an inactive unit Activated 1 October 1933 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Redesignated Third United States Army 1 January 1957 Overseas: March 1944 COMBAT RECORD Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe a Streamer awarded for action against the enemy not in connection with a named campaign. Name of campaign taken from province in which action occurred. Commanders: Lt Gen Courtney H. Hodges (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 8 May 1945) Returned to United States: March 1947 Unit Histories .16 February 1943 ....27 March 1944 Patton and His Third Army, by Brenton G. Wallace. Military Service Publishing Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1946. Lucky Forward, the History of Patton's Third U.S. Army, by Robert S. Allen. The Vanguard Press, New York, N. Y., 1947. The Lorraine Campaign, by Hugh M. Cole. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1950. (One volume of a series entitled THE U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II prepared in the Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, D. C.) FOURTH UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: A white four-leaf clover on a red diamond. Lineage Organized as Fourth Army in the Organized Reserves in 1922 at New York, New York Withdrawn from the Organized Reserves 9 August 1932 and allotted to the Regular Army as an inactive unit Activated 1 October 1933 at Presidio of San Francisco, California Redesignated Fourth United States Army 1 January 1957 COMBAT RECORD The Fourth United States Army has no combat record. It remained in the Continental United States during World War II training tactical units to operate efficiently in combat. In addition, Fourth Army was largely responsible for the defense of the West Coast. Unit History History of the Fourth Army, by Jack B. Beardwood, Washington, D. C., 1946. (N. P. Army Ground Force Study No. 18.) FIFTH UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: White letter A above a white numeral 5 on a blue mosque, all superimposed on a red background. Lineage Activated as Fifth Army in the Regular Army 5 January 1943 at Oujda, French Morocco Inactivated 2 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts Campaigns: Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, North Apennines, Po Valley Lt Gen Mark W. Clark Lt Gen Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. Returned to United States: September 1945 Unit Histories .5 January 1943 .16 December 1944 They Called it "Purple Heart Valley," a Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy, by Margaret B. White. Simon and Schuster, New York, N. Y., 1944. From Salerno to the Alps, by Chester G. Starr. The Infantry Journal Press, Washington, D. C., 1948. SIXTH UNITED STATES ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Six-pointed white star within a red hexagon. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Sixth Army 25 January 1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Inactivated 26 January 1946 at Kyoto, Japan Activated 1 March 1946 at Presidio of San Francisco, California Redesignated Sixth United States Army 1 January 1957 Campaigns: New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Luzon, Leyte Commanders: Lt Gen Walter E. Krueger (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 2 September 1945) Inactivated in Japan 26 January 1946 From Down Under to Nippon, by General Walter Krueger. Combat Forces Press, Washington, D. C., 1953. SEVENTH ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Two sets of stairs consisting of seven steps each placed back to back and converging at the top. A line connecting the second steps of each set of stairs forms the letter "A." The "A" is in yellow; the triangle within the "A" is in red; the design is superimposed on a blue pyramid. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Seventh Army 10 July 1943 in Tunisia Activated 11 June 1946 at Atlanta, Georgia Allotted to the Regular Army 24 November 1950 and activated at Vaihingen, Germany Overseas: July 1943 World War II Campaigns: Sicily, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Central Europe Commanders: Lt Gen George S. Patton, Jr. Lt Gen Alexander M. Patch (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 8 May 1945) Inactivated in Germany, 31 March 1946 Unit Histories .10 July 1943 .1 January 1944 .2 March 1944 Report of Operations, the Seventh United States Army in France-Germany, 1944-1945. Aloys Graf, Heidelberg, Germany, 1946. EIGHTH ARMY (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: On a red octagon a white pattée cross with all corners rounded. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Eighth Army 10 June 1944 at Memphis, Tennessee. Allotted to the Regular Army 20 July 1951. .7 September 1944 (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 2 September 1945) Eighth Army remained on occupation duty in Japan until the Korean War erupted in June 1950. Entered Combat: July 1950 Korea Campaigns: UN defensive, UN offensive, CCF intervention, First UN counteroffensive, CCF spring offensive, UN summer-fall offensive, Second Korean winter, Korea summer-fall 1952, Third Korean winter, Korea summer-fall 1953. Commanders: Lt Gen Walton H. Walker ... Lt Gen Matthew B. Ridgway (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 27 July 1953) Decorations .3 September 1948 ..26 December 1950 ...14 April 1951 Streamer, Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 (World War II). Three streamers, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, embroidered KOREA (Korean War). Unit Histories The Amphibious Eighth, prepared by the Eighth Army Historical Section. Boonjudo Printing Works, Tokyo, Japan, 1947. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, by Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger. Viking Press, New York, New York, 1950. NINTH ARMY (AUS) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: On a red nonagon a point letter "A" within the outline of a rosette figure of four petals, all white. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Eighth Army 15 April 1944 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 8 May 1945) Returned to United States: August 1945 Unit History .22 May 1944 Conquer, the Story of Ninth Army, 1944-1945. The Infantry Journal Press, Washington, D. C., 1947. TENTH ARMY (AUS) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Red Roman numeral X. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Tenth Army 20 June 1944 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Inactivated 15 October 1945 on Okinawa. (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 2 September 1945) Inactivated on Okinawa 15 October 1945. FIFTEENTH ARMY (AUS) 20 June 1944 23 June 1945 Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Within an olive drab border a pentagon divided per saltire and charged with the letter A, all countercharged red and white. Lineage Activated in the Army of the United States as Fifteenth Army 21 August 1944 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Inactivated 31 January 1946 in Germany. COMBAT RECORD World War II Overseas: November 1944. Campaigns: Rhineland. Commanders: Maj Gen Ray E. Porter Lt Gen Leonard T. Gerow (Commanding army at termination of hostilities, 8 May 1945) Inactivated in Germany, 31 January 1946. .8-15 January 1945 .16 January 1945 COMBAT RECORD OF CORPS, WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, AND KOREAN WAR, WITH LINEAL HISTORY TO 30 JUNE 1957 I CORPS (RA) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: A black circle enclosed in a white circle edged in black. Lineage Organized as I Army Corps 20 January 1918 at Neufcháteau, France Demobilized 25 March 1919 at Tonnerre, France Reconstituted as XX Army Corps 15 August 1927 Redesignated I Army Corps 8 October 1927 Activated 1 November 1940 at Columbia, South Carolina Redesignated I Corps 19 August 1942 Inactivated 28 March 1950 at Kyoto, Japan Activated 2 August 1950 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Overseas: January 1918 COMBAT RECORD World War I Campaigns: Ile-de-France, Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Champagne, Lorraine, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne. Commanders: Maj Gen Hunter Liggett Maj Gen Joseph T. Dickman (Commanding corps at termination of hostilities, 11 November 1918) Disbanded in France: 25 March 1919 .20 January 1918 .12 October 1918 World War II (Commanding corps at termination of hostilities, 2 September 1945) Inactivated in Japan: 28 March 1950 Korea Overseas: September 1950 CCF Campaigns: UN defensive, UN offensive, CCF intervention, UN counteroffensive, spring offensive, UN summer-fall offensive, Second Korean winter, Korea summer-fall 1952, Third Korean winter, Korea summer-fall 1953. Streamer awarded for action against the enemy not in connection with a named campaign. Name of action taken from province in which it occurred. |