69th Infantry Division (Fighting Sixty-Ninth)

69th Infantry Division (Fighting Sixty-Ninth)

LINEAGE

Constituted 14 January 1943 as the 69th Infantry Division.
Activated 15 May 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.
Inactivated 18 September 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

COMMANDERS IN COMBAT

Major General Emil F. Reinhardt - Assumed command September 1944

ORDER OF BATTLE

Headquarters, 69th Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 69th Infantry Division
69th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
269th Engineer Combat Battalion
271st Infantry Regiment
272nd Infantry Regiment
273rd Infantry Regiment
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery
724th Field Artillery Battalion
879th Field Artillery Battalion
880th Field Artillery Battalion
881st Field Artillery Battalion
Headquarters, Special Troops
369th Medical Battalion
769th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
569th Signal Company
69th Quartermaster Company

WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION

Rhineland, Central Europe