opfopti.blogg.se - 442nd Infantry Regiment by Jesse Russell

The 100th would in essence become the new 1st Battalion of the 442nd RCT. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions would join the legendary 100th Battalion, which was already fighting in Italy. The 1st Infantry Battalion remained in the States to train new recruits. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team included the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company, 206th Army Ground Force Band, Antitank Company, Cannon Company, Service Company, medical detachment, headquarters companies, and three infantry battalions. In April the regiment packed up, and on April 22, 1944, the men left Camp Shelby for their first overseas assignment in Europe. The men excelled at maneuvers and learned to operate as a team.

During training, many would be sent as replacements for the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) fighting in Europe.

Rhineland Campaign – Rescue of the Lost Battalionįrom May 1943 through February 1944 the men trained for combat.

Translation of the “Z PLAN” and the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Deployment to the South Pacific, Australia, and Alaska.

Military Intelligence Service Language School.

If you’d like to help with this project, please feel free to research one or more soldiers and email your contribution to you’re looking for the unit’s organizational chart, please click here. The soldiers who have biographies written have links on their last names. In Autumn 2020, we began an ongoing project to create biographies for all of the soldiers of the 442nd and affiliated units.

Please inform us if you are aware of any inaccuracies. Please know that any such mistakes are unintentional. As such, there will be errors, omissions, and duplicates. We are a volunteer organization and not a government agency, so we do not have access to an official master list. This was compiled from a variety of sources, but mostly from the veterans’ recollections. The following is a list of all known soldiers of the 442nd and affiliated units.