LINEAGE
Constituted 26 August 1941 as the 25th Infantry Division.
Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii.
COMMANDERS IN COMBAT
Major General Maxwell Murray - Assumed command October 1941
Major General J. Lawton Collins - Assumed command May 1942
Major General Charles L. Mullins - Assumed command December 1943
ORDER OF BATTLE
Headquarters, 25th Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 25th Infantry Division
25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
65th Engineer Combat Battalion
27th Infantry Regiment
35th Infantry Regiment
161st Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery
8th Field Artillery Battalion
64th Field Artillery Battalion
89th Field Artillery Battalion
90th Field Artillery Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
25th Medical Battalion
725th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
25th Signal Company
25th Quartermaster Company
WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION
Central Pacific, Guadalcanal, Northern Solomon’s, Leyte
