Index to the General Order of the 99^th Infantry Division, in WWII

Statistics:

Silver Star Medals 218
Soldier’s Medal 7
Bronze Star Medals 1,612
Air Medals 40
Purple Heart Medals 2,099
Battle Losses 1,152

Total Awards 3,976

This book has 76 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-48-5

ISBN 1-932891-48-X

Library of Congress Control Number 2005-277082

99^th Division's WWII Order of Battle

Headquarters Company

393^rd Infantry Regiment
394^th Infantry Regiment
395^th Infantry Regiment

Headquarters Battery, 99^th Division Artillery
370^th Field Artillery Battalion
371^st Field Artillery Battalion
372^nd Field Artillery Battalion
924^th Field Artillery Battalion

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

Units attached during combat operations*:

750^th Tank Battalion
786^th Tank Battalion
629^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
644^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
801^st Tank Destroyer Battalion
814^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
817^th Tank Destroyer Battalion
535^th AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion
*the time period of each attachment varies

WWII Campaigns
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

This is the thirtieth-fourth 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 99^th Infantry Division.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 99^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.

 This index also includes the names from the Adjutant General’s Battle Death Report of the 99^th Infantry Division. This lists all the men from the 99^th Infantry Division who gave their lives in combat.

General Order #10 of the 1944 Series does not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. 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.

 The number of individual Oak Leaf Clusters awarded to each recipient was not annotated in the general order. Therefore, to determine the total number awarded to each individual, I added up each time they were cited for an Oak Leaf Cluster to a particular decoration. This is not a perfect system, as it does not account for Oak Leaf Clusters awarded by other commands to a specific service member. So there is a possibility that the number of Oak Leaf Clusters stated in this work may be less then the actual number awarded. I find this the likelihood of this very small, but I must point of the possibility anyway.

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

           ** Of the missing general orders it is known that #5, #9, #18, #25, #27, #28, #30, #36, #60, #62 and #63 do contain individual decorations as specific decorations cited in these general orders were amended or revoked in general orders that are present.

 *** (GO#11,1945,99DIV) is missing pages 7 and 8.

 **** (GO#32,1945,99DIV) is missing all pages after page #4.

 How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,99Div) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “99Div” (99^th Infantry Division).  Information cited as (99DivAGOBD) is from the Adjutant General’s 1947 Battle Death Report for the 99^th Division. Entries that are in italics are men who were either Killed in Action or Died of Wounds.

                 Anyone with a copy of a missing 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.

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