Index to the General Orders of the 98th Infantry Division, in WWII
Statistics:
Bronze
Star Medals 164
Purple Heart Medals 3
Total Awards 167
This book has 7 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-29-4
ISBN 1-932891-29-3
Library of Congress Control Number 2004-270637
98th Division's WWII Order of Battle
Headquarters Company
389th Infantry Regiment
390th Infantry Regiment
391st Infantry Regiment
Headquarters Battery, 98th Division
Artillery
367th Field Artillery Battalion
368th Field Artillery Battalion
369th Field Artillery Battalion
923rd Field Artillery Battalion
98th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
323rd Engineer Combat Battalion
323rd Medical Battalion
98th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
Headquarters, Special Troops
798th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
98th Quartermaster Company
98th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
WWII Campaigns
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign without Inscription
This is the sixth 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 98th Infantry Division. * Please note that some decorations awarded to members of this division may have been cited in the general orders of other commands. Some awards of the Purple Heart Medal are missing, for example, as they were cited in the general orders of the hospitals which received the evacuated men. This index does not attempt to list all of the Bronze Star Medals 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 regiment and are listed here only if cited in the general orders of the 98th Infantry Division. Unit Awards, awards of specific Battle Stars , and Good Conduct Medals are not listed.
General orders of this division state the branch of service, but do not give complete unit assignments. It is assumed that all decoration recipients were assigned to the 98th 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 decoration recipients may have been assigned to Headquarters, 98th division or Headquarters, 98th Division Artillery, but are listed in a smaller organization, as I have no way of knowing which men were in headquarters unites and which were in line units.
The 98th Division was on occupation duty in Japan until it was deactivated, and, therefore, absorbed low point men from other units. I noticed a few recipients of the Purple Heart were with other units when they received that award. Although the general orders do not specify which units they were assigned to, I recognized obvious ones, such as men being wounded on Okinawa. The 98th Division itself never saw combat, but many members of the division were detached to other units actively engaged in combat operations. The men returned to the 98th Division at the end of these specific campaigns. Most were officers or infantrymen with experience using mortars. I assume that most decorations received by these men were issued in the general/special order of the commands that they were attached to.
How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,98DIV) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “98DIV” (98th Division). There is no Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 98th Infantry Division.
* The following general order is missing from the 98th Division’s file at the National Archives:
(GO#35,1945,98DIV)
Anyone with a copy of this general order 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.