Index to the General Order of the 76th Infantry Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Silver Star Medals 240
Soldier’s Medals 24
Bronze Star Medals 2,022
Air Medals 63
Purple Heart Medals 1,457
Combat Infantryman Badge 3
Battle Losses 779
Total Awards 4,588
This book has 83 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-23-2
ISBN 1-932891-23-4
Library of Congress Control Number 2005-271394
76th Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
304th Infantry Regiment
385th Infantry Regiment
417th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 76th Division
Artillery
302nd Field Artillery Battalion
355tth Field Artillery Battalion
364th Field Artillery Battalion
901st Field Artillery Battalion
76th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
301st Engineer Combat Battalion
301st Medical Battalion
76th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
776th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
76th Quartermaster Company
76th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Units attached during combat operations*:
702nd Tank Battalion
707th Tank Battalion
749th Tank Battalion
691st Tank Destroyer Battalion
808th Tank Destroyer Battalion
778th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies
WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
This is the twenty-ninth 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 76th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 76th 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, 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 76th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 76th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.
Some of the earlier general orders of the 76th Infantry Division do not give unit assignments. Awards of decorations other than Purple Heart Medal have the numerical designation of the regiment of separate battalion expunged, awards of the Purple Heart Medal cited during this period only state a branch of service. It is assumed that most decoration recipients were assigned to the 76th Division, unless they are listed in a branch of service that was not organic to this division. (Example Tank Destroyer Battalion, etc.). Please note that some decorations recipients may have been assigned to Headquarters, 76th Division or Headquarters, 76th Division Artillery but are listed in a smaller organization, since I have no way of knowing which men were in headquarters units and which were in line units.
This command did not place the general order number on each page; therefore it is possible that a page or pages may be out of order. I have made every effort to assure that this did not occur, but it is still a possibility.
*The following general order is missing from the files at the National Archives:
(GO#117,1945,76DIV)
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,76Div) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “76Div” (76th Division). Information cited as (76DivAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 76th Division. 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.