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On 1 February 1969, Co. P (RANGER) 75th Infantry was activated to perform reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition for the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (MECH). On 24 February 1969 the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mech) was assigned operational control of the Third Squadron, Fifth Cavalry.
The 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized)—nicknamed the Red Diamond,[1] the Red Devils, or die Roten Teufel—was an infantry division of the United States Army that served in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, and with NATO and the U.S. Army III Corps. Its final inactivation occurred on 24 November 1992.[2] The 5th Division was activated on 11 December 1917 at Camp Logan, near ...
LINEAGE (inactive) Constituted 17 November 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 5th Division. Organized II December 1917 at Camp Logan, Texas. Inactivated 4 October 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. Activated 16 October 1939 at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Reorganized and redesignated I August 1942, as I leadquarters, 5th Infantry Division.
The final plan submitted to Bradley called for a double envelopment of Metz by the XX Corps on the Third Army’s left flank, in which the 90th Infantry Division, supported by Maj. Gen. William Morris’s 10th Armored Division, would form the northern pincer and Irwin’s 5th Infantry Division would form the southern pincer.
The 5th Mechanized Infantry Division was re-organized at Fort Polk, LA in 1976. From 1989 through 1992 the division was attached to III Corps and shared its Allied Forces Central Europe ...
5th Infantry Division Vietnam Missing in Action. There are 4 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division Vietnam still listed as missing in action. Sergeant David M. Sexton 4th Artillery Battalion 03/15/1971. Specialist 4 Hughie F. Snider 77th Armored Battalion 04/28/1970. Captain John C. Stringer 11th Infantry Regiment 11/30/1970.
Geoffrey Evans. East Africa Campaign northern front: Allied advances in 1941. The 5th Indian Infantry Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army during World War II that fought in several theatres of war and was nicknamed the "Ball of Fire". It was one of the few Allied divisions to fight against three different armies - the Italian ...
