Stars and Stripes Forever midi file

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Table of contents:
Attached Units      Battlefields      Combat Service       Corps & Army Assignments      Division Combat Posts      Major Dates    
 On the Way       Organic Units      Re-deployment     Support Units        Training Camps

Major Dates:            

            Camp Adair, Oregon: Basic Training started 14 December, 1942.

            Oregon Maneuvers: August to November, 1943

            California-Arizona Maneuvers: November 1943 - March 1944

            Camp Carson, Colorado: Additional training, March - August 1944

            Camp Kilmer, New Jersey: Overseas staging, August 1944

            Embarked for overseas: 27 August, 1944 (first convoy direct U.S. to France)

              Combat Service: 23 Oct, 1944 - 5 May 1945 (195 consecutive days).

            Embarked for United States: 26 June & 2 July, 1945

            Division deactivated: 20 December, 1945

see Key Timberwolf Dates

Training camps:
         Camp Adair, Oregon - 15 September 1942
              Camp Hyder, Arizona - 7 November 1943
                  Camp Horn, Arizona - 29 November 1943
                      Camp Granite, California - 4 March 1944
                          Camp Carson, Colorado - 15 March 1944
                              Camp Kilmer, New Jersey - 20 August 1944
                                    Camp San Luis Obispo, California - 1 August 1945

On The Way:

The advance party under Brigadier General Bryant E. Moore, Assistant Division Commander, left Camp Carson by rail on 10 August and sailed for Europe from New York aboard the SS Ile de France on 17 August and landed in Greenoch, Scotland. The remainder of the Division, in twenty-four trains, moved out of Camp Carson between 15 and 17 August for Camp Kilmer, NJ and sailed from New York 27 August enroute to Europe aboard USS Lejeune, USS George Washington, USAT Cristobal and SS Ocean Mail (The largest convoy of WWII and the first to proceed directly from the United States to France). Arrived Cherbourg, France 7 September 1944.

Combat Service:

Entered combat on 23 October 1944 at Wuustwezel, Belgium, with 195 consecutive days in front line combat until 6 May 1945. (Reportedly more consecutive days of combat than any other division in the ETO).

Battlefields:

   Holland

        "Battle of the Dykes" 23 October-8 November 1944

    Germany

        "Beyond the Siegfried Line" (Aachen to the Roer River) 9 November-14 December 1944

        "Objective Cologne" (Roer River to Rhine River) 23 February-7 March 1945

        "Encirclement of the Ruhr" (Remagen to Lippstadt) 9 March-1 April 1945

        "Paderborn to Torgau" 1 April-8 May 1945

        Contact with the Russian Army, Torgau, Germany-between the Mulde and Elbe Rivers
        26 April 1945

Corps & Army Assignments:

           III Corps, Ninth United States Army - 7 September to 21 October 1944

           I British Corps, 1st Canadian Army - 21 October to 8 November 1944

           VII Corps, First United States Army - 8 November - 21 December 1944

           XIX Corps, Ninth United States Army - 21 December 1944 - 6 February 1945

           VII Corps, First United States Army - 6 February - June 1945

Organic Units:

                                             104TH INFANTRY DIVISION HEADQUARTERS COMPANY

                                             DIVISION ARTILLERY HEADQUARTERS COMPANY

                                            413TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

                                            414TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

                                            415TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

Attached Units:

                     555th Anticraft Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile)-26 Oct '44 to 24 May '45

                     750th Tank Battalion - 16 Nov '44 to 15 Dec '44

                     692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion - 28 Oct '44 to 13 March '45

                     817th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Self-Propelled)-1 April '45 to 9 June '45

                     87th Chemical Battalion (4.2 Inch Mortar) 3 Dec '44; 9 Feb '45 to 10 March '45

Supporting Units:

    147th (British) Tank Regiment - 23 October to 7 November 1944

    103rd (British) Antitank Battery - 24 October to 7 November 1944

    784th Tank Battalion - 31 December 1944 to 3 February 1945

    Company C, 644th Tank destroyer Battalion - 21-25 March 1945

    4th Cavalry Group - 1-6 April 1945

    272nd Infantry Regiment - 1-6 May 1945

    1106th Engineer Group - 9 November to 15 December 1944 & 5 February to 7 March 1945

    1120th Engineer Group - 21 March to 9 May 1945

    1115th Engineer Group - 15 December 1944 to 5 February 1945

    68th (British) Medium Artillery Regiment

    188th (British) Field Artillery Battalion

    987th (British) Field Artillery Battalion

    87th (British) Armored Field Artillery Battalion

    65th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

    957th Field Artillery Battalion

    283rd Field Artillery Battalion

    802nd Field Artillery Battalion

    981st Field Artillery Battalion

    13th Forward Observation Battalion (elements)

    142nd Field Artillery Group

    951st Field Artillery Battalion

    183rd Field Artillery Battalion

    Royal Air Force (fighter-bomber elememts) - 23 October to 7 November 1944

    365th Fighter Group, IX Tactial Air Command - 16 Nov to 21 Dec 1944 & 6 Feb to 9 May 1945

    36th Fighter Group, XXIX Tactical Air Command - 21 December 1944 to 6 February 1945

Division Command Posts:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Re-deployment Home:

SS Montery 26 June 1945 (arrived New York 3 July 1945), SS Ericsson 2 July 1945 (arrived New York 11 July 1945). After 30-day furloughs, the Division reassembled the first week of August 1945 at Camp San Luis Obispo, California. Last review of the 104th Infantry Division - 15 September 1945. War Department ordered inactivation of the 104th Infantry Division on 20 December 1945.

Kilroy was here Too!!

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