Index to the General Order of the 32^nd Infantry Division, in World War II

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 728
Soldier’s Medal 66
Bronze Star Medals 2,741
Air Medals 114
Purple Heart Medals 2,721
Combat Infantryman Badges 9
Battle Losses 2,561

Total Awards 6,379

This book has 114 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-60-7

Library of Congress Control Number Pending

32^nd Infantry Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

126^th Infantry Regiment
127^th Infantry Regiment
128^th Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 32^nd Infantry Division Artillery
120^th Field Artillery Battalion
121^st Field Artillery Battalion
126^th Field Artillery Battalion
129^th Field Artillery Battalion

32^nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
114^th Engineer Combat Battalion
107^th Armored Medical Battalion
32^nd Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
732^nd Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
32^nd Signal Company
32^nd Quartermaster Company
Military Police Platoon


WWII Campaigns

New Guinea
Southern Philippines
Luzon
 

          This is the forty-seventh 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 32^nd Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 32^nd 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.

                Most of the 32^nd Infantry Division’s general orders do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. Some of these general orders had the numerical designation of each recipient 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 for the 32^nd Infantry Division. This lists the names of men from the 32^nd Infantry Division who lost their lives in combat.  The last page of this report is missing from every copy remaining in the National Archives. The missing page contains men from the 107^th Medical Battalion and all but one man from the 114^th Engineer Combat Battalion. I consulted the Battle Monument Commission’s website in an attempt to include some of the battle deaths suffered by these units. This is not a complete listing of these unit’s combat losses as the Battle Monument Commission only lists service members buried in its cemetery. I then went back to the remaining unit records and located more names from the 107^th Medical Battalion and 114^th Engineer Combat Battalion’s month reports. However the National Archives did not have copies of each month’s report so this work could not account for all the battle deaths suffered by these two units, but is the most complete listing that could be constructed.

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

                 How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,32DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “32Div” (32^nd Infantry Division).  Information cited as (32DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 32^nd Division. Information cited as (107MEDBNFile) is from the 107^th Medical Battalion’s files at the National Archives. Information cited as (114ENGBNFile) is from the 114^th Engineer Combat Battalion’s files at the National Archives. Information cited as (BMC) is from the Battle Monument Commission’s website. 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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