Index to the General Order of the 100^th Infantry Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 590
Soldier’s Medals 28
Bronze Star Medals 6,296
Air Medals 106
Purple Heart Medals 2,176
Combat Infantryman Badge 7
Combat Medic Badge 193
Battle Losses 949

Total Awards 9,396

This book has 177 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-79-9

Library of Congress Control Number Pending

100^th Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

397^th Infantry Regiment
398^th Infantry Regiment
399^th Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 100^th Division Artillery
373^rd Field Artillery Battalion
374^th Field Artillery Battalion
375^th Field Artillery Battalion
925^th Field Artillery Battalion

100^th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
325^th Engineer Combat Battalion
325^th Medical Battalion
100^th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
800^th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
100^th Quartermaster Company
100^th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon

Units attached during combat operations*:

781^st Tank Battalion
824^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
898^th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies

WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

This is the fifty-fourth in a series of indexes of all the divisions, corps, armies and commands of the US Army during WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.

 This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 100^th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 100^th Infantry Division may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Most awards of the Purple Heart Medal were cited in the general orders of the hospitals that the men were evacuated to and, therefore, are not included in the work. This index does not attempt to list all of the awards of the Bronze Star Medal that were retroactively awarded under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. Most awards of the CIB and CMB were made in general orders of the respective infantry regiments. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific battle stars, and Good Conduct Medals.

 This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 100^th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 100^th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.

*The following general orders were missing from the files at the National Archives:

           The above list of missing general order may seem extensive, however it is my opinion that most if not all do not contain individual decorations. This theory is based upon my observation of the general orders located. The 100^th Infantry Division’s General Order File contains general orders through the end of the 1944 Series and then only a few of the 1945 Series. Most of the general orders of the 1945 Series were located in the unit history files of subordinate units of the 100^th Infantry Division. Additional missing general orders were located in various locations. I believe that it is a safe assumption that the general orders located in subordinate unit’s unit history files were used to complete the rosters, which appear in their unit histories. Only general orders pertaining to members of the subordinate unit appears in their unit files, thus the need to check each subordinate unit’s files. Most of the general orders of the 1945 Series that could be located were therefore specifically filed because they contained individual decorations. Very few general orders from the 1945 series were located that did not address individual decorations or unit awards. Therefore I feel safe to assume that most, if not all, of the missing general orders were strictly administrative in nature.

How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,100Div) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “100Div” (100^th Infantry Division).  Information cited as (100DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 100^th Infantry Division. Entries that are in italics are men who were either Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.

             Every effort has been made to minimize errors and misspelled names. An error may be attributable to the source document, or may have occurred while transcribing the names/units. Some of the original documents are of very poor print quality, making them difficult to decipher.

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