Chronology

• 1941

  • April 15 -- Activation at Camp Beauregard, LA

  • June 14 -- Transfer to Camp Polk

   

• 1942

  • July -- Mojave Desert, CA

  • October -- Camp Pickett, VA

   

• 1943

  • January -- Indiantown Gap, PA

  • September 5 -- Board Ships for Europe

  • September 15 -- Liverpool and Bristol

   

• 1944

  • June 24 -- Omaha Beach, Normandy

  • June 29 -- Villiers-Fossard

  • August 5-8 -- Battle of Mortain

  • September 3 -- Capture of Mons

  • September 8 -- Leige taken

  • September 21 -- Reached Stolberg

  • December 19 -- Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes

   

• 1945

  • January 16 -- Battle of the Bulge ends

  • March 5-7 -- Cologne

  • March 21 -- Rhine crossing at Honnef

  • March 30 -- Death of General Rose

  • March 31 -- Paderborn

  • April 11 -- Nordhausen

  • April 21-23 -- Dessau

  • May 8 -- VE Day

  • September -- First units return to New York