26th Infantry Division, United States Army
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World War II
Major General Willard S. Paul took command of the division, which he would lead through the rest of the war. Before deploying overseas to the ETO, the 26th ID trained at Camp Campbell, Kentucky.
The division was assigned to III Corps of the Ninth United States Army, Twelfth United States Army Group. It was shipped from the United States directly to France, and was never sent to Britain. The 26th Infantry Division landed in France at Cherbourg and Utah Beach on 7 September 1944, but did not enter combat as a division until a month later.
The 26th Infantry Division was assigned to:
Primary subordinate units were:
- 101st Infantry Regiment
- 104th Infantry Regiment
- 328th Infantry Regiment
- 101st Field Artillery Battalion
- 102nd Field Artillery Battalion
- 180th Field Artillery Battalion
- 263rd Field Artillery Battalion
- 39th Signal Company
- 726th Ordnance Company
- 26th Quartermaster Company
- 26th Reconnaissance Troop
- 101st Engineer Combat Battalion
- 114th Medical Battalion
- 761st Tank Battalion
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