41st Infantry Division (Sunset)

41st Infantry Division (Sunset)
LINEAGE

Constituted 18 July 1917 as the 41st Division.
Organized 18 September 1917 at Camp Greene, North Carolina.
Inactivated 22 February 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey.
Activated 3 January 1930 with headquarters at Portland, Oregon.
Ordered into federal service 10 September 1940 at Portland, Oregon.
Reorganized and redesignated 17 February 1942 as the 41st Infantry Division.
Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Japan.
Activated 26 February 1947 with headquarters at Portland, Oregon.

COMMANDERS IN COMBAT

Major General Horace H. Fuller - Assumed command December 1941
Major General Jens A. Doe - Assumed command June 1944

ORDER OF BATTLE

Headquarters, 41st Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 41st Infantry Division
41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
116th Engineer Combat Battalion
162nd Infantry Regiment
163rd Infantry Regiment
186th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery
146th Field Artillery Battalion
167th Field Artillery Battalion
205th Field Artillery Battalion
218th Field Artillery Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
116th Medical Battalion
741st Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
41st Signal Company
41st Quartermaster Company

WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION

New Guinea, Luzon (with arrowhead), Southern Philippines