Index to the General Order of the 90^th Infantry Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 1,455
Soldier’s Medals 44
Bronze Star Medals 6,053
Air Medals 139
Purple Heart Medals 4,066
Combat Infantryman Badge 5
Combat Medic Badge 530
Battle Losses 3,988

Total Awards 12,292

This book has 224 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-54-6

ISBN 1-932891-54-4

Library of Congress Control Number 2005-277350

90^th Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

357^th Infantry Regiment
358^th Infantry Regiment
359^th Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 90^th Division Artillery
343^rd Field Artillery Battalion
344^th Field Artillery Battalion
345^th Field Artillery Battalion
915^th Field Artillery Battalion

90^th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
315^th Engineer Combat Battalion
315^th Medical Battalion
90^th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
790^th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
90^th Quartermaster Company
90^th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon

Units attached during combat operations*:

712^th Tank Battalion
746^th Tank Battalion
607^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
773^rd Tank Destroyer Battalion
774^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
803^rd Tank Destroyer Battalion
807^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
537^th 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-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 90^th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 90^th 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.

 General Orders 20 thru 214 of the 1944 series does not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. Many 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.

 There are two General Order #76, 1945 published by the 90^th Infantry Division’s. One is likely an error as the only citation contained in it was republished in General Order #86.

 This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 90^th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 90^th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.

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

             How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,90DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “90DIV” (90^th Infantry Division).  Information cited as (90DIVAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 90^th Infantry 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.

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