Index of the General Orders of the 27^th Infantry Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 409
Soldier’s Medals 9
Bronze Star Medals 1,087
Purple Heart Medals 4,643
Combat Infantryman Badges 13
Combat Medic Badges 299
Battle Losses 1,919

Total Awards 6,460

This book has 117 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-58-4

ISBN 1-932891-58-7

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27^th Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

105^th Infantry Regiment
106^th Infantry Regiment
165^th Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 27^th Division Artillery
104^th Field Artillery Battalion
105^th Field Artillery Battalion
106^th Field Artillery Battalion
249^th Field Artillery Battalion

27^th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
102^nd Engineer Combat Battalion
102^nd Medical Battalion
27^th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
727^th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
27^th Quartermaster Company
27^th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon

WWII Campaigns
Central Pacific
Western Pacific
Ryukyus

This is the forty-forth 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 27^th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 27^th Infantry 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 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 infantry regiments. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.

 In 1943 a task force, known as the 27^th Division Task Force, was formed around the 165^th Infantry and 3^rd Battalion, 105^th Infantry for the invasion of Butarirari Island, Makin Atoll. This task force issued general orders awarding Purple Heart Medals, which are included in this index as well. The source code for a 27^th Division Task Force general order looks like this: (GO#6,1943,27DIVTF).

Most 27^th Infantry Division’s general orders do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. Some of these general orders had the numerical designation of recipients penciled into the margin; when this information was present, it was included in this work. Please note that some members of tank destroyer battalions were actually members of the field artillery branch; likewise, members of tank battalions are commonly assigned to the infantry or cavalry branch. So the branch of service is only a lead in determining what unit an individual served in.

This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 27^th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 27^th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.

*The following general order was missing from the files at the National Archives:

                 How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,271DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “27DIV” (27^th Infantry Division).  Information cited as (27DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 27^th Infantry Division. Entries that are in italics are men who gave their lives in combat.

                      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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