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THE CRUCIBLE—COMBAT
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TABLE 16

Deployment of Divisions to the European Theater

Division Date Division Date
1st Armored May 1942 42d Infantry November 1944
1st infantry June 1942 44th Infantry August 1944
2d Armored September 1942 45th Infantry May 1943
2d Cavalry February 1944 63d Infantry November 1944
3d Armored September 1943 65th Infantry November 1944
3d Infantry September 1942 69th Infantry November 1944
4th Armored December 1943 70th Infantry November 1944
4th Infantry January 1944 71st Infantry January 1945
5th Armored February 1944 75th Infantry October 1944
5th Infantry April 1942 76th Infantry November 1944
6th Armored February 1944 78th Infantry October 1944
7th Armored May 1944 79th Infantry March 1944
8th Armored October 1944 80th Infantry June 1944
8th Infantry November 1944 82d Airborne April 1943
9th Armored August 1944 83d Infantry March 1944
9th Infantry September 1942 84th Infantry September 1944
10th Armored September 1944 85th Infantry December 1943
10th Mountain December 1944 86th Infantry February 1945
11th Armored September 1944 87th Infantry October 1944
12th Armored September 1944 88th Infantry November 1943
13th Airborne January 1945 89th Infantry January 1945
13th Armored January 1945 90th Infantry March 1944
14th Armored October 1944 91st Infantry March 1944
16th Armored January 1945 92d Infantry September 1944
17th Airborne August 1944 94th Infantry July 1944
20th Armored January 1944 95th Infantry July 1944
26th Infantry August 1944 97th Infantry February 1945
28th Infantry September 1943 99th Infantry September 1944
29th Infantry September 1942 100th Infantry September 1944
30th Infantry January 1944 101st Airborne August 1943
34th Infantry January 1942 102d Infantry September 1944
35th Infantry May 1944 103d Infantry September 1944
36th Infantry April 1943 104th Infantry August 1944
106th Infantry October 1944

medical and parachute maintenance companies, and special troops, to which the division headquarters, ordnance, and quartermaster companies; military police and reconnaissance platoons; band; and medical detachment reported (Chart 22). The tables reversed the proportion of parachute and glider infantry regiments and considerably strengthened the units. The glider infantry regiment was authorized