Statistics:
Combat Infantryman
Badges 3,450
Combat Medic Badges 143
Total Awards 3,593
This book has 76 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-31-7
ISBN 1-932891-31-5
Library of Congress
Control Number 2005-270716
The 259th Infantry Regiment was assigned to the 65th
Infantry Division
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Central Europe
This is the fourth in a series of indexes of all infantry regiments and independent infantry battalions 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 259th Infantry Regiment.* Please note that some decorations to members of the 259th Infantry Regiment may have been cited in general orders of other commands. This index lists members of the 259th Infantry Regiments that were awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medic Badge by the 259th Infantry Regiment. Combat Infantryman Badges and Combat Medic Badges are important, since the recipients of these badges are retroactively entitled to a Bronze Star Medal, under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. I have made no attempt to list the Unit Awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.
The general orders present in the 259th Infantry’s file at the National Archives are mostly extracts. I was unable to locate the original complete general orders. The extracts are not numbered by which section of the larger general order which they came from. Most extracts are arranged according to company assignments, but some companies do not have an extract, therefore, it is entirely possible that some information is missing from this work.
How to read the sources: (GO#12,1945,259INF) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 12, 1945), “259INF” (259th Infantry Regiment).
* Missing general orders, it is not known if any portion of an extracted general order is missing for the reason stated above.
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.