Index to the General Orders of the 16^th Armored Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Soldier’s Medals 6
Bronze Star Medals 171
Purple Heart Medals 16
Army Commendation Ribbons 18
Certificate of Merit 17
Combat Infantryman Badges 3
Battle Losses 3

Total Awards 231

This book has 11 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-88-1

Library of Congress Control Number Pending

16^th Armored Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company
Headquarters, Combat Command A
Headquarters, Combat Command B
Headquarters, Reserve Command

5^th Tank Battalion
16^th Tank Battalion
26^th Tank Battalion

18^th Armored Infantry Battalion
64^th Armored Infantry Battalion
69^th Armored Infantry Battalion

Headquarters Battery, 16^th Armored Division Artillery
395^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
396^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
397^th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

23^rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
216^th Armored Engineer Combat Battalion
216^th Armored Medical Battalion
516^th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Trains
137^th Armored Ordnance  Maintenance Battalion
156^th Armored Signal Company
Military Police Platoon

Units attached during combat operations:

633^rd Tank Destroyer Battalion
571^st AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
 

WWII Campaigns
Central Europe

This is the sixty-first 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 16^th Armored Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 16^th Armored 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 this 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 not attempted to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, or Good Conduct Medals.

 This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 16^th Armored Division. This lists the names of men from the 16^th Armored Division who gave their lives in combat.

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

                 It is rather unlikely that any of the missing general orders contain information relating to decorations. The 16^th Armored Division was one of the last divisions to be committed to combat in Europe.

            How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,16ARMDIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “16ARMDiv” (16^th Armored Division).  Information cited as (16ARMDIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 16^th 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.

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