63rd Infantry Division (Blood and Fire)

63rd Infantry Division (Blood and Fire)

LINEAGE

Constituted 18 January 1943 as the 63rd Infantry Division.
Activated 15 June 1943 at Camp Blanding, Florida.
Inactivated 27 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts.

COMMANDERS IN COMBAT

Major General Louis E. Hibbs - Assumed command June 1943

ORDER OF BATTLE

Headquarters, 63rd Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 63rd Infantry Division
63rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
263rd Engineer Combat Battalion
253rd Infantry Regiment
254th Infantry Regiment
255th Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery
718th Field Artillery Battalion
861st Field Artillery Battalion
862nd Field Artillery Battalion
863rd Field Artillery Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
363rd Medical Battalion
701st Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
563rd Signal Company< 63rd Quartermaster Company

WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION

Rhineland, Central Europe