3rd Infantry Division (Marne)

3rd Infantry Division (Marne)

LINEAGE

Constituted 12 November 1917 as the 3rd Division..
Organized 21 November 1917 at Camp Greene, North Carolina.
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 3rd Infantry Division.

COMMANDERS IN COMBAT

Major General Jonathan W. Anderson - Assumed command March 1942
Major General Lucian K. Truscott - Assumed command March 1943
Major General John W. O'Daniel - Assumed command February 1944

ORDER OF BATTLE

Headquarters, 3rd Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 3rd Infantry Division
3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
10th Engineer Combat Battalion
7th Infantry Regiment
15th Infantry Regiment
30th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery
9th Field Artillery Battalion
10th Field Artillery Battalion
39th Field Artillery Battalion
41st Field Artillery Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
3rd Medical Battalion
703rd Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
3rd Signal Company
3rd Quartermaster Company

WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION

Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Tunisia, Sicily (with arrowhead), Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, Southern France (with arrowhead), Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe