Index to the General Orders of the 81^st Infantry Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 282
Soldier’s Medals 40
Bronze Star Medals 674
Air Medals 15
Purple Heart Medals 2,031
Combat Infantryman Badge 3
Battle Losses 537

Total Awards 3,045

This book has 67 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-96-6

Library of Congress Control Number Pending

81^st Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

321^st Infantry Regiment
322^nd Infantry Regiment
323^rd Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 81^st Division Artillery
316^th Field Artillery Battalion
317^th Field Artillery Battalion
318^th Field Artillery Battalion
906^th Field Artillery Battalion

31^st Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
306^th Engineer Combat Battalion
306^th Medical Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
781^st Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
81^st Quartermaster Company
81^st Signal Company
Military Police Platoon

WWII Campaigns

Western Pacific
Leyte

          This is the sixty-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 81^st Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 81^st Infantry Division were 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 here. 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 armored infantry regiments. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals. 

Some of the 81^st Infantry Division’s general orders issued do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment. These general orders list the recipient’s branch of service in lieu of the unit of assignment.  

                How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,81DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “81DIV” (81^st Infantry Division). Information cited as (81DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 81^st Armored 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.

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