Index to the General Orders of the 10th Mountain Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Silver Star Medals 447
Soldier’s Medals 14
Bronze Star Medals 7,873
Purple Heart Medals 1,023
Combat Infantryman Badge 126
Combat Medic Badge 418
Battle Losses 927
Total Awards 9,901
This book has 257 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-09-6
ISBN 1-932891-09-9
Library of Congress Control Number 2004-274051
10th Mountain Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
85th Mountain Infantry Regiment
86th Mountain Infantry Regiment
86th Mountain Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division
Artillery
604th Field Artillery Battalion
605th Field Artillery Battalion
616th Field Artillery Battalion
10th Mountain Infantry Anti-Tank Battalion
10th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
126th Mountain Engineer Combat Battalion
10th Mountain Medical Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
710th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
110th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Unit attached during combat operations:
1125th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
WWII Campaigns
North Apennines
Po Valley
This is the twenty-second in a series of indexes of all the divisions, corps, armies and commands of the US Army in WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.
This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 10th Mountain Division.* Please note that some decorations to members of the 10th Mountain Division may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Some awards of the Purple Heart Medal are missing as they were cited in the general orders of the hospitals to which the men were evacuated. This index does not attempt to list all 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. This work does list the awards of those specialty badges that were cited in the general orders of 10th Mountain Division. 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 10th Mountain Division. This lists all the men from the 10th Mountain Division who gave their lives while in combat.
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,10MTNDIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “10MTNDIV” (10th Mountain Division). Information cited as (10MTNDIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 10th Mountain Infantry Division. Entries that are in italics are men who were either Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.
General orders of this division numbered before General Order #74 do not give complete unit assignments. These general orders just state the branch of service. It is assumed that most decoration recipients were assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, unless they are listed in a branch of service that was not organic to this division. (Example: Tank Destroyer Battalion, etc.) The possibility of errors occur with decoration recipients whose branch of service is listed as Field Artillery as they may have actually served in a Tank Destroyer Battalion. Please note that some decorations recipients may have been assigned to Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division or Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division Artillery but are listed in a smaller organization; as I have no way of knowing which men were in headquarters units and which were in line units.
* The following general orders are missing from the 10th Mountain Division’s file at the National Archives:
(GO#62,1945,10MTNDIV) (GO#72,1945,10MTNDIV) (GO#78,1945,10MTNDIV) (GO#103,1945,10MTNDIV)**
** (GO#103,1945,10MTNDIV) is noted on the index at the beginning of the general order folder as “Confidential” and therefore it is unlikely that it contain any individual decorations.
* Pages from the following general order are missing from the 10th Mountain Division’s files at the National Archives: (GO#109,1945,10MTNDIV) is missing pages 7 and 8
Anyone with a copy of any of these general orders or missing pages is encouraged to contact the author.
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.