34th Infantry Division - Army Heritage Center Foundation

As of 15 Oct 2009

34th Infantry Division

In 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered selected National Guard divisions to active duty for 12 months. Included among the units was the 34th "Red Bull" Division. Although scheduled for activation in October 1940, due to a shortage of accommodations, the division was not activated until 10 February 1941. Activated at Council Bluffs, Iowa, ten days later the division moved to Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.

The division was activated as a World War I-era "square" division organized around two infantry brigades, the 67th and 68th Infantry Brigades. Each brigade consisted of two infantry regiments, the 133d and 168th Infantry Regiments, and the 135th and 164th Infantry Regiments, respectively.

On 1 February 1942 the unit was redesignated the 34th Infantry Division and reconfigured as a "triangular" division built around three infantry regiments, the 133d, 135th and 168th Infantry Regiments.

In 1942 a typical infantry regiment consisted of a headquarters and band, a headquarters company, a service company, an anti-tank company, a cannon company, and three infantry battalions.

In March 1943 the basic infantry regiment was reorganized to include a headquarters, a headquarters company, a service company, an anti-tank company, and three infantry battalions.

Each of the three infantry battalions consisted of a headquarters and headquarters company, three rifle companies and a heavy weapons company. Within each regiment, the 1st Battalion consisted of Companies A through D, the 2d Battalion consisted of Companies E through H, and the 3d Battalion consisted of Companies I through M (there was no Company J).

Name

Location Rank

Unit

Contents

Headquarters and Headquarters Company

Mason, Joseph G.

Box 1

133d Infantry Regiment Andrew, Richard J.

Box 1

PFC

Arnbal, Anders K. Baker, Donald

Coleman, James V. Daniel, Paul M.

Box 1 1LT Box 1 CPL

Box 1 Box 1

CPT SSG

Headquarters, Band

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 151st Field Artillery Battalion]

1st Battalion, Company B

2d Battalion, Company H 3d Battalion, Unidentified unit

3d Battalion, Company K 1st Battalion, Company C

Survey and photocopy of his fivepart "Military Memories" article, "Tour of Italy" published in The Heart, for April through August 1996 Survey

Letter of Condolence from the 3d Battalion Commander regarding CPL Baker's accidental death Survey

Survey

Davidson, Harry C. Farris, Gordon W. Fredrickson, Richard W. Fregonese, Giuliano Jacobs, Julian R.

Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1

T/4 T/5 T/2 PFC T/5

Kehoe, Martin J. Kravitch, Nicholas Marshall, Jack A. Slominski, Martin J. Stiss, Seymour B. Taraborrelli, Matthew Zakel, George

Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1

T/4 SGT MAJ 1LT T/4 PFC PFC

135th Infantry Regiment

Belseth, Glenn O.

Box 1

Bowman, Earl

Box 1

Breit, John M.

Box 1

CPL CPL COL

Brosious, William A.

Box 1 MSG

As of 15 Oct 2009

1st Battalion, Company Unidentified unit 3d Battalion, Company M 3d Battalion, Company M 2d Battalion, Company G

Anti-Tank Company 3d Battalion, Company L 2d Battalion, Company E Headquarters Company 3d Battalion, Company L 3d Battalion, Company L Headquarters Company

Survey

Survey Survey

Survey, V-Mail and Mother's Day postcard Survey; booklet, "The Krauts are Out;" collection of identification cards, calling cards, business cards, transportation tickets, and entrance tickets to tourist sites; large collection of postcards; collection of World War II-era foreign currency; two telegrams informing his mother that Jacobs had been wounded; Safe Conduct flyer; roster of Company G; and 24 November 1945 issue of The Great Lakes Survey Survey

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 168th Infantry Regiment] Survey

Survey and propaganda flyers

Survey

Survey

3d Battalion, Company M

3d Battalion, Company M

Headquarters, Commanding Officer

1st Battalion, Company D

Survey

Survey

Draft history of the regiment and a collection of official documents and reports [Maintained in Box 2] Survey

Cook, Ernest N. Elwell, John C. Generotti, Elmer J., Jr. Hastings, Charles L.

Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1

CPL PFC CPL SSG

Hunt, George A.

Box 1 1LT

Kiesow, Irven R. MacKowiak, Clement S. O'Brien, James Rydeen, Lester E. Schneider, Edwin J. Starr, Lawrence J. Urgo, George O. Winteregg, Max

Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1 Box 1

SGT PVT MG T/2 SGT PVT CPL

168th Infantry Regiment

Gossett, Robert B.

Box 3

Horning, Edward M. Huff, George B. Kibler, Nelson F.

Box 3 Box 3 Box 3

1LT

SSG 1LT 1LT

As of 15 Oct 2009

Headquarters, Medical Detachment

3d Battalion, Company I

1st Battalion, Unidentified unit

2d Battalion, Headquarters Company

2d Battalion, Company G; 3d Battalion, Company I; Company K

1st Battalion, Company A

Unidentified unit

1st Battalion, Company A

1st Battalion, Company D

2d Battalion, Company H

2d Battalion, Company H

1st Battalion, Company D

2d Battalion, Company H

Survey Extensive collection of personal letters written in 1944 Survey Survey

Survey

Survey and clippings Survey Survey Survey Survey Survey Survey Survey

2d Battalion, Company H

Cannon Company

Unidentified unit

3d Battalion, Company I

Survey

Survey

Survey

Booklet, North Africa, issued to all US forces in North Africa and extensive official documents pertaining to members of the regiment who worked with the British Commandos for several months

As of 15 Oct 2009

Laird, Raymond C. Marshall, Jack A.

Pfander, David P. Wallworth, Robert N.

Box 3 Box 3

CPT MAJ

Box 3 Box 3

PVT PFC

Headquarters, Medical Detachment 2d Battalion, Company E

3d Battalion, Company I 1st Battalion, Company A

Survey

Survey, typed and bound memoir, "Tales of a Timid Commando," a collection of typed reflections on a variety of topics, and a unit history, 80th Infantry Division [Memoir and unit history transferred to Library holdings] Survey

Survey

34th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized)

34th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment

109th Engineer Combat Battalion

Leighton, Charles F.

Murphy, Francis Parks, Jack H.

Box 3 SGT

Box 3 Box 3

MSG T/5

Company A

Company B Headquarters and Service Company

Survey and photocopied extracts from Mary Kelly's 1994 publication, Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland

Survey

Survey and photocopied materials on Anzio extracted from published materials

109th Medical Battalion

Twidwell, Winfred A.

Box 3 PFC

Company C

Survey

84th Division Artillery

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery

Mason, Joseph G.

Box 3

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 151st Field Artillery Battalion]

125th Field Artillery Battalion

Francis, William H. Miller, Clem W. Moline, Hobart

Box 3 Box 3

LTC SSG

Box 3 Donor

Headquarters

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 151st Field Artillery Battalion]

Headquarters Battery; Survey and brief unit history,

Battery A

"A Summary of the 125 FA

Battalion, WWII"

Battery D

Photocopy of the roster of battery as of 1 February 1941

As of 15 Oct 2009

151st Field Artillery Battalion

Francis, William H.

Mason, Joseph G. Vojta, Francis J.

Box 3 LTC

Box 3 Box 3 LTC

Headquarters, Commanding Officer

Headquarters, Band Unidentified unit

Survey, bound copy of his World War II Diary covering the period 23 January 1943 through 28 September 1945, and a copy of his 1985 publication, World War II Medley [Publication transferred to Library holdings]

Typed memoir, "Music and Mud or Through World war II with Trumpet and Transit: My Life in an Army Field Band

Typed document, "A Critique of the Navy's Historical Accounts of the VI Corps landing at Salerno, Italy, During September 1943"

175th Field Artillery Battalion

Chandler, Patrick L. Francis, William H.

Box 3 T/2 Box 3 LTC

Headquarters Battery

Two surveys and bound photocopied document, "War Diary of the 175th Field Artillery Battalion, November 8, 1942 ? March 1, March 1943" [Diary transferred to Library holdings]

Headquarters

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 151st Field Artillery Battalion]

185th Field Artillery Battalion

Askelson, Howard S. Francis, William H.

Offer, Robert D.

Box 3 Box 3

Box 3

COL LTC

COL

Battery C Headquarters

Headquarters, Executive Officer; Commanding Officer

Two surveys

[See: 34th Infantry Division; 151st Field Artillery Battalion]

Survey

Headquarters Special Troops

Headquarters Company

734th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company

34th Quartermaster Company

34th Signal Company

Military Police Platoon

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