Index to the General Order of the 11th Armored Division, in World War II
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 201
Soldier’s Medal 1
Bronze Star Medals 1564
Air Medals 36
Purple Heart Medals 1419
Combat Infantryman Badges 182
Combat Medic Badges 12
Battle Losses 628
Total Awards 3,415
This book has 98 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-11-9
ISBN 1-932891-11-0
Library of Congress Control Number 2003-278107
11th Armored Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
Headquarters Company, Combat Command A
Headquarters Company, Combat Command B
Headquarters Company, Reserve Command
22nd Tank Battalion
41st Tank Battalion
42nd Tank Battalion
21st Armored Infantry Battalion
55th Armored Infantry Battalion
63rd Armored Infantry Battalion
Headquarters Battery, 11th Armored Division
Artillery
490th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
491th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
492nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
56th Armored Engineer Combat Battalion
81st Armored Medical Battalion
511th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Trains
133rd Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
151st Armored Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
705th Tank Destroyer Battalion
811th Tank Destroyer Battalion
575th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
This is the seventh 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 11th Armored Division. * Please note that some decorations to members of this division may have been cited in the general orders of other commands. Many awards of the Purple Heart Medal, for example are missing as they were cited in the general orders of the hospitals which received the evacuated men. This index does not attempt to list all of the Bronze Star Medals 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 cited in the general orders of the 11th Armored Division. Unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals are not listed.
General orders dated before June 10th, 1945 do not give complete unit assignments; they just state the branch of service. It is assumed that all decoration recipients were assigned to the 11th Armored Division, unless they are listed in a branch of service that was not organic to this division. (Example: Tank Destroyer Battalion, etc.). Most recipients of decorations who served in an unspecified Tank Destroyer Battalion were likely assigned to the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Most recipients of decorations who served in an unspecified Anti-Aircraft Artillery Auto-Weapons Battalion were likely assigned to the 575th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Auto-Weapons Battalion. These two battalions were attached to the 11th Armored Division during most of the time it was actively engaged in combat.
This index also includes the names of all men who gave their lives in combat listed in the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 11th Armored Division. .
How to read the sources: (GO#47,1945,11ARMDIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 47, 1945), “11ARMDIV” (11th Armored Division). Information cited as (11ARMDIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 11th Armored Division. Italicized entries are men who were either “Killed in Action” or “Died of Wounds.”
* The following general order is missing from the 11th Armored Division’s file at the National Archives:
(GO#54,1945,11ARMDIV)
Anyone with a copy of this general order 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.