35th (US) Infantry Division

35th (US) Infantry Division

Battle order – June-August 1944 – Battle of Normandy

 

Headquarter

Commander: Major General Paul W. Baade
Deputy commander: Brigadier General Edmund B. Sebree

Chief of Staff: Colonel Maddrey A. Solomon

 

Combat and combat support units

134th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Butler B. Miltonberger

137th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Grant Layng, wounded on July 11th, 1944, temporarily replaced by Brigadier General Edmund B. Sebree and then by Colonel Harold R. Emery

320th Infantry Regiment : Colonel Bernard A. Byrne

35th Reconnaissance Troop (mechanized)

60th Combat Engineer Battalion

35th Artillery Division
– 161st Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer)
– 216th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer)
– 219th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer): Lieutenant-Colonel John N. Wilson, killed on July 11th, 1944, replaced by Major Claude N. Shaver
– 127th Field Artillery Battalion (155 Howitzer)

Combat service units

110th Medical Battalion

735th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company

35th Quartermaster Company

35th Signal Company

Military Police Platoon

Headquarters Company

Band

Reinforcements

Anti-aircraft artillery
– 448th AAA AW Battalion (Mbl), from July 9th, 1944 to April 26th, 1945
– 459th AAA AW Battalion (Mbl), from July 19th to 27th, 1945
– 116th AAA Gun Battalion (Mbl), from July 20th, 1944 to August 3rd, 1944

Field artillery
– 29th Div Arty, from July 19th to 27th, 1944
– 967th FA Bn (155 How), from July 19th to 27th, 1944
– 183rd FA Bn (155 How), from August 11th to 12th, 1944
– 974th FA Bn (155 How), from August 15th to 21st, 1944
– 255th FA Bn (105 How), from August 15th, 1944
– 182d FA Gp, on August 17th, 1944

Armored
– 737th Tank Battalion, from July 9th to 28th, 1944
– D Co, 32nd Armored Regiment (3rd Armored Division), from August 10th to 12th, 1944
– CCA (4th Armored Division), from August 15th to 19th, 1944
– 113th Cavalry Group, from July 20th to 24th, 1944
– 4th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, from August 9th to 12th, 1944
– 106th Cavalry Group, from August 28th to September 8th, 1944

Anti-tank
– 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), from July 9th to December 22nd, 1944
– 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), from July 19th to 27th, 1944

Chemicals
– 82nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, on July 14th, 1944
– C Co, 81st Chemical Mortar Battalion, from July 30th to August 5th, 1944

Command posts

May 31, 1944: Tavistok, England
July 7, 1944: Colombières
July 9, 1944: Moon-sur-Elle
July 21, 1944: Villiers-Fossard
July 28, 1944: Saint-Lô
July 31, 1944: Condé-sur-Vire
August 1st, 1944: Domjean
August 2, 1944: Sainte-Marie-Outre-L’Eau
August 5, 1944: Louvigne
August 7, 1944: Notre-Dame-de-Touchet
August 13, 1944: Le Mans
August 15, 1944: Château de Champ Romain
August 18, 1944: Artenay
August 20, 1944: Pithiviers-le-Vieil
August 22, 1944: La Carrière
August 24, 1944: Courtenay
August 30, 1944: Fontvannes