Index to the General Orders of the 104th Infantry Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 819
Soldier’s Medals 24
Bronze Star Medals 3,644
Air Medals 56
Purple Heart Medals 1,883
Combat Infantryman Badges 3
Combat Medic Badges 49
Battle Losses 1,474
Total Awards 6,478
This book has 146 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-52-2
ISBN 1-932891-52-8
Library of Congress Control Number 2005-279246
104th Infantry Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
413th Infantry Regiment
414th Infantry Regiment
415th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 104th Division
Artillery
385th Field Artillery Battalion
386th Field Artillery Battalion
387th Field Artillery Battalion
929th Field Artillery Battalion
104th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
329th Engineer Combat Battalion
329th Medical Battalion
104th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
804th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
104th Quartermaster Company
104th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
750th Tank Battalion
784th Tank Battalion
692ndh Tank Destroyer Battalion
817th Tank Destroyer Battalion
555th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Northern France
Rhineland
Central Europe
This is the thirty-seventh 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 104th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 104th 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 104th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 104th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.
Most general orders issued prior to (GO#41,1944,104DIV) do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. Most of these general orders have the recipient’s unit information penciled into the margin; I used this information whenever it was present. Please note that some members of tank destroyer battalions were actually members of the field artillery branch; likewise, members of tank battalions are commonly assigned to the infantry or cavalry branch. So the branch of service is only a lead in determining what unit an individual served in.
*The following general order were missing from the files at the National Archives:
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(GO#191,1945,104DIV) |
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,104DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “104DIV” (104th Infantry Division). Information cited as (104DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 104th Infantry Division. Entries that are in italics are men who gave their lives in combat.
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.