Index to the General Order of the 75th Infantry Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Silver
Star Medals 266
Soldier’s Medals 34
Bronze Star Medals 3,242
Air Medals 34
Purple Heart Medals 1,935
Combat Infantryman Badge 4
Combat Medic Badge 320
Battle Losses 930
Total Awards 5,835
This book has 126 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-22-6
ISBN 1-932891-22-6
Library of Congress
Control Number
2004-557732
75th Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
289th Infantry Regiment
290th Infantry Regiment
291st Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 75th Division
Artillery
730th Field Artillery Battalion
897th Field Artillery Battalion
898th Field Artillery Battalion
899th Field Artillery Battalion
75th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
275th Engineer Combat Battalion
375th Medical Battalion
75th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
775th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
75th Quartermaster Company
575th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
701st Tank Battalion
709th Tank Battalion
717th Tank Battalion
744th Tank Battalion
750th Tank Battalion
628th Tank Destroyer Battalion
629th Tank Destroyer Battalion
654th Tank Destroyer Battalion
772nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
807th Tank Destroyer Battalion
814th Tank Destroyer Battalion
440th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
This is the twentieth in a series of indexes of all the divisions, corps, armies and commands 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 75th Division.* Please note that some decorations to members of the 75th Division may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Some awards of the Purple Heart Medal are missing as they were cited in the General Orders of the hospitals to which the men were evacuated. This index does not attempt to list all 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 Special Orders of the respective Infantry Regiments. This work does list the awards of those Specialty Badges that were cited in the General Orders of 75th Division. 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 75th Division. This lists all the men from the 75th Division who gave their lives while in combat.
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,75DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “75DIV” (75th Division). Information cited as (75DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 75th Infantry Division. Entries that are in italics are men who were either Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.
* The following general orders are missing from the 75th
Division’s file at the National Archives:
(GO#15,1944,75DIV) (GO#23,1944,75DIV) (GO#304,1945,75DIV)
(GO#305,1945,75DIV) (GO#306,1945,75DIV) (GO#308,1945,75DIV)
The last general order in the file is #309, which is dated October 9, 1945. The 75th Division was not deactivated until March 11, 1946. Therefore it is possible that there are additional missing general orders, numbered beyond #309, which may contain additional individual awards.
Anyone with a copy of any of the missing general orders is encouraged to contact the author.
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.