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47th Infantry Division (France)
47th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 47th Reserve Division (German Empire) * 47th Landwehr Division (German Empire) * 47th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Infantry Division Bari (Kingdom of Italy) * 47th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) * 47th (1/2nd London) Division (United Kingdom, World War I) * 47th (London) Infantry Division (United Kingdom, World War II) * 47th Infantry Division (United States) The 47th Infantry Division was a Formation (military), formation of the United States Army active from 1946 to 1991. It was provided by the Army National Guard. History The division was created on 10 June 1946 as a National Guard infantry div ... * 47th Infantry Division (People's Republic of China) * 47th Infantry Division (Russian Empire) Tank divisions * 47th Tank Division (USSR) * 47th Tank Division (Russia) * 47th Guards Tank Division (USSR) Aviation divisions * 47th Air Division (United States) {{mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Reserve Division (German Empire)
The 47th Reserve Division (''47. Reserve-Division'') was a unit of the German Empire, Imperial German German Army (German Empire), Army in World War I. The division was formed in September 1914 and organized over the next month, arriving in the line in October. It was part of the first wave of new divisions formed at the outset of World War I, which were numbered the 43rd through 54th Reserve Divisions. The division was part of XXIV Reserve Corps (German Empire), XXIV Reserve Corps. It was disbanded on August 2, 1918. Recruitment The 217th Reserve Infantry Regiment was raised in the Prussian Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt. The 218th, 219th, and 220th Reserve Infantry Regiments were raised in the Prussian Province of Westphalia, but included troops from other Prussian provinces and German states. After the 217th Reserve Infantry Regiment was transferred to the 225th Infantry Division, the 47th Reserve Division was nominally all-Westphalian, but by that point in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Landwehr Division (German Empire)
47th may refer to: Chicago Transit Authority stations * 47th station (CTA Green Line) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system, located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 314 E 47th Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opene ..., on the Green Line * 47th station (CTA Red Line), on the Red Line See also * {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 47th Infantry Division () was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II. It was formed in February 1944 and was destroyed by the forces of the Western Allies in the Mons cauldron in September 1944. The division was then reassembled as the 47th Volksgrenadier Division and operated until 1945. Operational history The 47th Infantry Division was raised on 1 February 1944 near Calais in German-occupied France from the 156th Reserve Division. The process of reclassification of the 156th Reserve Division had started on 23 November 1943. Subsequently, the 47th Infantry Division was assigned to coastal defense duty against the possibility of a naval invasion by the Western Allies. When this invasion became reality as Operation Overlord, was launched starting with the D-day landings on 6 June 1944, the 47th Infantry Division under command of Otto Elfeldt, was assigned to 5th Panzer Army. The German units were unable to hold their grounds against the Allied fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht)
The 47th Volksgrenadier Division () was a volksgrenadier division of the German Army during the Second World War, active from 1944 to 1945. Operational history The division was formed from the remnants of the 47th Infantry Division in Denmark in September 1944, under the command of ''Lieutenant General'' Max Bork. In mid-November, the division was ordered just east of the village of Gressnich, now part of Stolberg in North Rhine-Westphalia. Field Marshal Model, believing the division to be inexperienced, moved them out of the way of the American Ninth Army. It remained in action on the Western Front, until it was destroyed in March 1945. Between January and March 1945, the 47th Volksgrenadier Division became an example of the chaotic logistical breakdown suffered by German forces in the closing months of the war; ordered from the Düren area to the Rösrath- Overath-Bergisch Gladbach- Wahn sector for reinforcements on 5 January 1945, it was instead reactivated preemptively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Infantry Division Bari
47th may refer to: Chicago Transit Authority stations * 47th station (CTA Green Line) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system, located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 314 E 47th Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opene ..., on the Green Line * 47th station (CTA Red Line), on the Red Line See also * {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the . The ''47th Division'' was formed 14 May 1943 in Hirosaki, simultaneously with the 42nd, 43rd and 46th divisions. The nucleus for the division formation was the 67th independent infantry brigade and the headquarters of the 57th division. The ''47th division'' was initially assigned to the Northern District Army. On 13 June 1944, a ''12th detachment'' comprising three infantry battalions and mountain artillery battalion was separated from the ''47th division'' and sent to Luzon, where it was expanded to the 58th Independent Mixed Brigade and fought in Battle of Luzon until surrender of Japan 15 August 1945. In December 1944, the division was assigned to the 43rd army and transferred to North China, where it participated in the disastrous Battle of West Hunan from April 1945. The ''47th division'' had met the surrender of Japan 15 August 1945 in Jinan and was demobilized starting from Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th (1/2nd London) Division
The 47th (1/2nd London) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force. Formation The Territorial Force (TF) was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which combined and re-organised the old Volunteer Force, the Honourable Artillery Company and the Yeomanry. On formation, the TF contained 14 infantry divisions and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades. One of the divisions was the 2nd London Division. In peacetime, the divisional headquarters was, from 1912, in the Duke of York's Headquarters. First World War The 2nd London Division was designated the 47th Division in 1915, during the Great War, and referred to as the "1/2nd London Division" after the raising of the second-line 60th (2/2nd London) Division. After undergoing a period of training, the division was sent to France in March 1915, the second complete Territorial division (after the 46th (North Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th (London) Infantry Division
The 47th (London) Infantry Division was an infantry Division (military), division of the British Army that was formed during the Second World War and remained in the United Kingdom until the end of the war. In March 1939, after the re-emergence of Nazi Germany, Germany as a significant military power and its German occupation of Czechoslovakia, occupation of Czechoslovakia, the British Army increased the number of divisions in the Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army (TA) by duplicating existing units. The 2nd London Division was formed in August 1939 as a second-line duplicate of the 56th (London) Infantry Division, 1st London Division; its battalions were all initially London-based. The division was established as a motor division and was fully mobile, with two infantry brigades rather than the usual three for an infantry division. The intention was to increase battlefield mobility, enabling the motor divisions to follow armoured forces through breaches in the oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Infantry Division (United States)
The 47th Infantry Division was a Formation (military), formation of the United States Army active from 1946 to 1991. It was provided by the Army National Guard. History The division was created on 10 June 1946 as a National Guard infantry division from the efforts of Minnesota's Adjutant General Ellard Walsh. The division was built from scratch with veteran transfers and new recruits, mostly from Minnesota and North Dakota, under the command of Major General Norman Hendrickson. General Hendrickson was the Chief-of-Staff for the 34th Division in the North African and Italian campaigns in 1943 and the IX Corps (United States), IX Corps in occupied Japan. Units of the division were allotted to the Minnesota National Guard and North Dakota National Guard. The division never saw combat throughout its history, although it was federalized and sent to Fort Rucker, Camp Rucker, Alabama from 1951 to 1954 during the Korean War. During the Korean War the division was used as a replacement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Infantry Division (People's Republic Of China)
The 47th Reserve Infantry Division is a military reserve formation of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China. The 47th Division () was created in February 1949 under ''the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army'', issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 2nd Brigade, 1st Column of Zhongyuan Field Army. Its history can be traced to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Column of Jinjiluyu Military Region formed on September 22, 1945. Under the command of the 16th Corps, it took part in many major battles during the Chinese civil war. The division was a part of 16th Corps. The division took part in the Chinese Civil War.In September 1951 Tank Regiment (later renamed as 253rd Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment) was activated and attached to the division.In December 1952 the division entered Korea as a part of People's Volunteer Army. In 1955 the division was renamed as 47th Infantry Division(). On Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 47th Infantry Division (, ''47-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and .... Organization It was part of the 16th Army Corps. *1st Brigade **185th Infantry Regiment **186th Infantry Regiment *2nd Brigade **187th Infantry Regiment **188th Infantry Regiment *47th Artillery Brigade References {{Russian Empire Divisions Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 Saratov Governorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Tank Division (USSR)
47th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 47th Reserve Division (German Empire) * 47th Landwehr Division (German Empire) * 47th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Infantry Division Bari (Kingdom of Italy) * 47th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) * 47th (1/2nd London) Division (United Kingdom, World War I) * 47th (London) Infantry Division (United Kingdom, World War II) * 47th Infantry Division (United States) * 47th Infantry Division (People's Republic of China) * 47th Infantry Division (Russian Empire) The 47th Infantry Division (, ''47-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was ... Tank divisions * 47th Tank Division (USSR) * 47th Tank Division (Russia) * 47th Guards Tank Division (USSR) Aviation divisions * 47th Air Division (United States) {{mil- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
