The 79th Infantry Division (formerly known as the 79th Division) was an

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formation of the

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in World Wars I and II. Since 2009, it has been active as the 79th Theater Sustainment Command.

World War I

*Activated: August 1917 *Overseas: July 1918 *Major operations: Meuse-Argonne *

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: Total-6,874 (KIA-1,151 ; WIA-5,723) *Commanders: Maj. Gen.

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(25 August 1917), Brig. Gen.

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(26 November 1917), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (17 February 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (16 April 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (22 May 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 June 1918), Brig. Gen. W. J. Nicholson (28 June 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (23 July 1918), Brig. Gen.

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(29 December 1918), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (31 December 1918), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (19 January 1919), Brig. Gen. John S. Winn (2 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Andrew Hero Jr. (3 February 1919), Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (9 February 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (28 February 1919), brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson (16 March 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (30 March 1919), Brig. Gen. Joseph S. Winn (4 May 1919), Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn (8 May 1919). *Returned to U.S.: May 1919 *Inactivated: June 1919

Order of battle

* Headquarters, 79th Division * 157th Infantry Brigade ** 313th Infantry Regiment ** 314th Infantry Regiment ** 311th Machine Gun Battalion * 158th Infantry Brigade ** 315th Infantry Regiment ** 316th Infantry Regiment ** 312th Machine Gun Battalion * 154th Field Artillery Brigade ** 310th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) ** 311th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) ** 312th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) ** 304th Trench Mortar Battery * 310th Machine Gun Battalion * 304th Engineer Regiment * 304th Field Signal Battalion * Headquarters Troop, 79th Division * 304th Train Headquarters and Military Police ** 304th Ammunition Train ** 304th Supply Train ** 304th Engineer Train ** 304th Sanitary Train *** 313th, 314th, 315th, and 316th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals

Combat chronicle

The division was first activated at Camp Meade, Maryland in August 1917, composed primarily of draftees from Maryland and Pennsylvania. After a year of training the division sailed overseas in July 1918. The 79th Division saw extensive combat in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive area where it earned the name of "Cross of Lorraine" for their defense of France. The division was inactivated June 1919 and returned to the United States. Throughout its entire World War I campaign, the division suffered 6,874 casualties with 1,151 killed and 5,723 wounded.

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Henry Gunther, the last American soldier to be killed in action during World War I, served with the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division.

Interwar period

The division was reconstituted in the

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on 24 June 1921 and assigned to the eastern half of the state of Pennsylvania. The headquarters was organized on 29 September 1921. It formed part of the

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World War II

*Ordered into active military service: 15 June 1942 at Camp Pickett,

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*Trained at

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in California in 1943. *Overseas: 7 April 1944 *Campaigns:

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, Northern France,

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*Days of combat: 248 *Distinguished Unit Citations: 8 *Awards:

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-3 ; Distinguished Service Cross (United States)-13 ; Distinguished Service Medal (United States)-1 ; Silver Star-962; Legion of Merit-11 ;

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-27 ;

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-4,916 ;

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-78 *Commanders: Major General Ira T. Wyche (June 1942 – May 1945), Brigadier General Leroy H. Watson (May–July 1945), Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe (July–August 1945), Brigadier General Leroy H. Watson (August 1945 to inactivation). *Returned to U.S.: 10 December 1945. *Inactivated: 20 December 1945, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. *Reactivated: (Organized Reserve division 29 November 1946).

Order of battle

* Headquarters, 79th Infantry Division * 313th Infantry Regiment * 314th Infantry Regiment * 315th Infantry Regiment * Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Infantry Division Artillery **310th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) **311th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) **312th Field Artillery Battalion (155 mm) **904th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) * 304th Engineer Combat Battalion * 304th Medical Battalion * 79th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) * Headquarters, Special Troops, 79th Infantry Division ** Headquarters Company, 79th Infantry Division ** 779th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company ** 79th Quartermaster Company ** 79th Signal Company ** Military Police Platoon ** Band * 79th

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Detachment

Combat chronicle

The division was activated at Camp Pickett,

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, where it trained in the desert. It was then ordered to Camp Phillips,

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for training in winter conditions. At the beginning of April 1944, the division reported to the port of embarkation at

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. The division arrived in Liverpool on 17 April and began training in amphibious operations. After training in the United Kingdom from 17 April 1944, the 79th Infantry Division landed on

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, Normandy, 12–14 June and entered combat 19 June 1944, with an attack on the high ground west and northwest of Valognes and high ground south of

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. The division took Fort du Roule after a heavy engagement and entered Cherbourg, 25 June. It was around this time that

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, both of the 314th Infantry Regiment, were awarded the

. It held a defensive line at the Ollonde River until 2 July 1944 and then returned to the offensive, taking La Haye du Puits in

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, 8 July. On 26 July, the 79th attacked across the Ay River, took Lessay, crossed the

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and entered Le Mans, 8 August, meeting only light resistance. The advance continued across the Seine, 19 August. Heavy German counterattacks were repelled, 22–27 August, and the division reached the Therain River, 31 August. Moving swiftly to the

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frontier near St. Amand (east of

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), the division was then moved to XV Corps in eastern France, where it encountered heavy resistance in taking Charmes in street fighting, 12 September. The 79th cut across the Moselle and

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s, 13–23 September, cleared the Forêt de Parroy in a severe engagement, 28 September – 9 October, and attacked to gain high ground east of

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, 14–23 October, when it was relieved, 24 October. After rest and training at

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, the division returned to combat with an attack from the MignevineMontiguy area, 13 November 1944, which carried it across the Vezouse and Moder Rivers, 18 November – 10 December, through Haguenau in spite of determined enemy resistance, and into the Siegfried Line, 17–20 December. The division held a defensive line along the Lauter River, at

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from 20 December 1944 until 2 January 1945, when it withdrew to Maginot Line defenses. The German attempt to establish a bridgehead west of the

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at Gambsheim resulted in furious fighting. The 79th beat off German attacks at Hatten and Rittershoffen in an 11-day battle before withdrawing to new defensive positions south of Haguenau on the Moder River, 19 January 1945. The division remained on the defensive along the Moder until 6 February 1945. During February and March 1945, the division mopped up German resistance, returned to offensive combat, 24 March 1945, crossed the Rhine, drove across the Rhine-Herne Canal, 7 April, secured the north bank of the Ruhr and took part in clearing the Ruhr Pocket until 13 April. The division then went on occupation duty, in the Dortmund, Sudetenland, and

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n areas successively, until its return to the United States and inactivation.

Casualties

*Total battle casualties: 15,203Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths, Final Report (Statistical and Accounting Branch, Office of the Adjutant General, 1 June 1953) *Killed in action: 2,476 *Wounded in action: 10,971 *Missing in action: 579 *Prisoner of war: 1,186

Assignments in European Theater of Operations

*18 April 1944: VIII Corps, Third Army. *29 May 1944: Third Army but attached to VII Corps, First Army. *30 June 1944: Third Army, but attached to First Army. *1 July 1944: VIII Corps. *1 August 1944: VIII Corps, Third Army,

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. * 8 August 1944: XV Corps. *24 August 1944: XV Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to First Army. *26 August 1944: XV Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group. *29 August 1944: XII Corps. *7 September 1944: XV Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group. *29 September 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to the XV Corps, Seventh Army,

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. *25 November 1944: XV Corps, Seventh Army, 6th Army Group. *5 December 1944: VI Corps. * 6 February 1945: Seventh Army, 6th Army Group. * 17 February 1945: Seventh Army, 6th Army Group, but attached to the XVI Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group. *1 March 1945: XIII Corps. *7 March 1945: XVI Corps. * 7 April 1945: XVI Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.

79th Sustainment Support Command

The 79th Infantry Division is now the

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(SSC) headquartered at Joint Forces Training Base (JFTB) Los Alamitos, California. The 79th SSC was officially activated on 1 December 2009 with the mission of providing trained, ready, cohesive, well-led sustainment units for worldwide deployment to meet the U.S. Army's rotational and contingency mission requirements in support of the National Military Strategy. The 79th SSC is the higher headquarters of over 20,000 U.S. Army Reserve sustainment soldiers organized into over 200 units dispersed throughout the western half of the United States. Major subordinate commands of the 79th SSC include the

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in San Antonio, Texas, the 311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Los Angeles, California, the 364th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Marysville, Washington, and the

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in Wichita, Kansas. As the operational command posts of a theater sustainment command – the ESCs plan, coordinate synchronize, monitor, and control operational- level sustainment operations for Army service component commands, joint task forces and joint forces commands throughout the world. *Reactivated: 1 December 2009 *Commanders **Major General William D. Frink, Jr. (1 December 2009 – 8 February 2013) **Major General Megan P. Tatu (9 February 2013 – 4 December 2015) **Major General Mark Palzer (5 December 2015 – 8 December 2018) **Major General Eugene J. Leboeuf (8 December 2018 – Present)

Subordinate units

As of 2020 the following units are subordinated to the 79th Theater Sustainment Command: * 79th Theater Sustainment Command, in

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*** 348th Transportation Battalion (TML), in Houston, Texas ** 300SustainBdeSSI

300th Sustainment Brigade, in

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***363d Support Battalion (PETRL PL & TML OP), in San Marcos, Texas **

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***372d Quartermaster Battalion (Petroleum Support) in Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico ***383d Support Battalion (PETRL PL & TML), in

311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), in

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*** 371st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in

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** 650th Regional Support Group, in North Las Vegas, Nevada *** 314th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in

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** 653rd Regional Support Group, in Mesa, Arizona *** 336th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in

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*** 418th Quartermaster Battalion (Petroleum Support) in

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*** 419th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in

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General

*Nickname: Cross of Lorraine Division. *Shoulder patch: White bordered blue shield on which is superimposed a cross of Lorraine.

In popular culture

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depicts the titular character as a Captain who served in the 79th Infantry during World War I before receiving a

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of 1918.

Notes

References

6. ''The Cross of Lorraine: A Combat History of the 79th Infantry Division, June 1942-December 1945''. Army and Navy Publishing Co., 1946. fficial Division history

Sources

External links

79th Inf, Small World War II Photo AlbumMontfaucon: Captain Barber and the 313th Regiment
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The World War II Letters of Private Melvin W. Johnson of the 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th DivisionWorld War I diary of Harry Frieman, 313th Machine Gun Company, 79th Division
Harry Frieman Collection (AFC/2001/001/23600), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. {{DEFAULTSORT:079 079th Infantry Division, U.S. Military units and formations established in 1917 Infantry Division, U.S. 079 United States Army divisions of World War I