Index to the General Order of the 28th Infantry Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 383
Soldier’s Medals 19
Bronze Star Medals 2,847
Air Medals 106
Purple Heart Medals 5,211
Combat Infantryman Badge 8
Combat Medic Badge 448
Prisoners of War 5
Battle Losses 2,826
Total Awards 9,027
This book has 170 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-51-5
ISBN 1-932891-51-X
Library of Congress Control Number 2005-277691
28th Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
109th Infantry Regiment
110th Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 28th Division
Artillery
107th Field Artillery Battalion
108th Field Artillery Battalion
109th Field Artillery Battalion
229th Field Artillery Battalion
28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
103rd Engineer Combat Battalion
103rd Medical Battalion
28th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
728th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
28th Quartermaster Company
28th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
707th Tank Battalion
741st Tank Battalion
744th Tank Battalion
777th Tank Battalion
602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
629th Tank Destroyer Battalion
630th Tank Destroyer Battalion
446th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
447th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
This is the thirty-sixth 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 28th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 28th 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.
This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 28th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 28th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.
Most general orders issued during 1944 and early 1945 do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. There was a time when the 28th Division did not state the branch of service of enlisted members cited; those entries will only state “Army.” 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.
*The following general orders were missing from the files at the National Archives:
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(GO#10,1944,28DIV) |
(GO#82,1945,28DIV) |
(GO#92,1945,28DIV) |
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,28DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “28DIV” (28th Infantry Division). Information cited as (28DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 28th 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.