Index to the General Order of the 14th Armored Division, in World War II
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 290
Soldier’s Medal 14
Bronze Star Medals 3,375
Air Medals 40
Purple Heart Medals 1,630
Combat Infantryman Badges 14
Combat Medic Badges 230
Battle Losses 609
Total Awards 5,593
This book has 165 pages
ISBN
978-1-932891-85-0
Library of Congress
Control Number Pending
14th Armored Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
Headquarters Company, Combat Command A
Headquarters Company, Combat Command B
Headquarters Company, Reserve Command
25th
Tank Battalion
47th Tank Battalion
48th
Tank Battalion
19th Armored Infantry Battalion
62nd Armored Infantry Battalion
68thArmored Infantry Battalion
Headquarters Battery, 14th Armored Division
Artillery
499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
500th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
501st Armored Field Artillery Battalion
94th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
125th Armored Engineer Combat Battalion
84th Armored Medical Battalion
514th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Trains
136th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
154th Armored Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
14th Armored Division Band
Units attached during combat operations:
636th
Tank Destroyer Battalion
398th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
This is the fifty-eighth 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 14th Armored Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 14th Armored Division were 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 armored infantry battalions. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.
Most of the 14th Armored Division’s general orders issued prior to General Order #64 issued on June 28, 1945 do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment. These early general orders have the numerical designations of the recipient’s unit expunged.
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,14ARMDIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “14ARMDIV” (14th Armored Division). Information cited as (14ARMDIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 14th Armored 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.