This information from the center for Military History

 

World War II

39th Infantry Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
60th Infantry Regiment 
15th Engineer Combat Battalion
9th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized)

9th Division Artillery
26th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Howitzer)
34th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm Howitzer)
60th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Howitzer)
84th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Howitzer)
42nd AAA Battalion

Special Troops

Band
9th Medical Battalion
9th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Headquarters Company
9th Quartermaster Company
709th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company

746th Tank Battalion
61st Tank Battalion  
899th Tank Destroyer Battalion
894th Tank Destroyer Battalion
376th AAA (AW) Battalion

Medal of Honor awards

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GI's from the 9th Infantry Division in the streets of Cherbourg atop a captured Axis tank on June 28, 1944. The town had just fallen and the Americans are celebrating its liberation with some French townsfolk. Notice that the GI driving the tank is wearing a captured German helmet!

 

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RARE FOOTBALL Program for Game between the 9th and 1st Inf Div October 14, 1945

The "Final Thrust" booklet on the 9th,=Sept 1944-May 1945

By-Laws for the Octofoil Assoc signed at the end or WWII

Letter from a Pub in England before the unit left for France about a WWII 9th unit

WWII 9th units

The Division was reactivated August 1st, 1940 at Ft Bragg, North Carolina as a precautionary measure in preparation of World War II with the following units:

39th Infantry Regiment (From the 4th Division)
47th Infantry Regiment (From the 4th Division)
60th Infantry Regiment (From the 5th Division)
9th Division Artillery
     26th Field Artillery Battalion
     34th Field Artillery Battalion
     60th Field Artillery Battalion
     84th Field Artillery Battalion
9th Division Band
9th Medical Battalion
9th Quartermaster Battalion
9th Signal Battalion
9th Reconnaissance Troop
Headquarters & 9th Military Police Company
15th Engineer Battalion
709th Ordnance Company

After two years of intensive training the 9th Division was combat read by the fall of 1942 and was redesignated the 9th Infantry Division. The division was divided into three Regimental Combat Teams (RCTs); the 39th RCT, 47th RCT and 60th RCT.

The division saw a lot of combat in Northern Africa and Europe during the war. It was after the divisions performance during the Battle of the Bulge that it was nicknamed "Old Reliables". After the war the division was inactivated in Germany on January 15th, 1947.

Within six months, on July 15th, 1947, the division was reactivated at Ft. Dix, New Jersey as a training division. On May 25th, 1954, the division colors were transferred to Goepengin, Germany, to replace the 28th Infantry Division which had resumed its traditional role with the Pennsylvania National Guard. In the fall of 1956 the 9th was rotated to Ft. Carson, Colorado. By December of 1957 the division had been reorganized from the Triangular type division to the new Pentomic. The three original infantry regiments were converted to Battle Groups and the 1st Battle Groups of the 5th Infantry and the 13th Infantry were added to the division. The division was again deactivated on January 31st, 1962

WWII Campaigns

decorations

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World War II US 9th Infantry Division GI Greets Northern France Town Mayor ACME Press Captioned Photograph. This is photograph was taken by famed combat photographer Bert Brandt.  This particular photograph was commended by Ernie Pyle as "an outstanding photograph".  The town is Barneville, Cherbourg Peninsula, France.  The photograph is dated 27 June 1944.

 

Unused patch from the Phantom or Fictitious Unit 9th Airborne Division. HISTORY: During World War Two, the US Army, along with several Allied nations, created an entire Phantom Army to deceive the Germans into believing that the Allied forces were as much as 70% stronger than they actually were. Prior to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, the First United States Army Group (FUSAG) was created and placed under the command of General George Patton in southeast England. The mission of FUSAG was to deceive the Germans into believing that the real invasion of France would be at Pas de Calais, not Normandy. On paper, FUSAG was comprised of the 14th Army, 2 Corps, 1 Armored Division, 5 Airborne Divisions, and 14 Infantry Divisions. added to this force was 1 Airborne and 9 Infantry Divisions that had been activated but not actually raised bringing the FUSAG's total force to 30 non-existent divisions. This deception was named "Operation Quicksilver."

NOTE-- Help a Fellow Old Reliable

               My name is Richard A. Myren (SN-36848549), 368 Lancastere Street, Cambria, CA 93428.
               805-927-2608, rpmyren@peoplepc.com.  In WWII, at a repple/depple behind Omaha Beach (St Mere   Eglise or St. Lo), I was assigned to the 9th Inf Div.  At the Division, I was placed in the MP   Platoon.  I stayed with the 9th to the Elbe & on to Ingolstadt.  My records were burned in the warehouse fire.  I want to reconstruct them.  I would like to know the location, number & nickname of the repple/depple, my date of arrival there, and the date of my attachment to the 9th.  Those dates should have been between 27 June & 24 July 1944.  Can anyone help me find this information?
 
Thanks Paul,
 
Dick

 

  

THE WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL

They went forth to do battle, 16 million strong.
They fought... and they died for Liberty.
They have been called The Greatest Generation,
And they bear that title with pride and dignity.

They served courageously throughout the world,
In the air, at sea, and on foreign land.
From scores of sultry islands in the Southern Seas,
To Africa's dusty, hot, unyielding sand.

Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Midway, Bataan.
Those names evoke such grief, such pain and sacrifice.
Normandy, Anzio, Lorraine, The Bulge, Bastogne.
Who knew they would command such a dreadful price?

Countless thousands were maimed and scarred;
More than 400,000 gave up their lives.
But we know, in our hearts, they died not in vain.
They saved our precious Freedom, that still survives.

And yet, for nearly sixty long and silent years,
Little tribute was paid to this gallant company.
No memorial, no monument, no hallowed place,
To commemorate their arduous, valiant victory.

Veterans of other wars had theirs built long ago,
And their deeds were rightfully placed in history.
But for Veterans of our most great and costly  war,
There was nothing at all for the world to see.

Now thankfully, after all these fruitless years,
Their Memorial will be dedicated this Memorial Day.
They will have a shrine, at last, to call their own,
And their story will finally have its say.

Of the 16 million who were called to arms
Barely four million will see tomorrow's dawn.
And as each evening falls and the bugle calls,
A thousand more of our heroes will be forever gone.

We must never forget the role they played,
In the forging of our Country's destiny.
They preserved our cherished American way of life.
May their legacy endure throughout eternity.

-Frank J. Montoya
May, 2004


www.webbergroup.com/ninth/ is the website for WWII    

http://oldreliable9_47.tripod.com/ 

http://www.octofoil.org/ another WWII 9th group

http://members.tripod.com/~msg_fisher/ 29th field artillery  

http://www.60thinfantry.com/ 

other WW II links

This web site list KIA, POW and wounded Marines, Navy & CG
during WWII. Click on State, then they are alphabetical
They are .GIF format and are slow to load... will take some hit and miss to
find the right surname... info may be useful for Families or for verifying purple heart.

State Summary of War Casualties from
World War II for
Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/wwii/navy_marines_coast_guard_casualties/table_of_contents.html


WW II Army and Army Air Forces Personnel   by State & County
Web site below shows KIA & MIA only... not wounded
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/wwii/army_aaf_honor_list/table_of_contents.html

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing
Army and Army Air Forces Personnel