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MANEUVER AND FIREPOWER

TABLE 18

Location of National Guard Divisions
Post–World War II

Division States
26th Infantry Massachusetts
27th Infantry New York
28th Infantry Pennsylvania
29th Infantry Maryland and Virginia
30th Infantry Tennessee and North Carolina
31st Infantry Alabama and Mississippi
32d Infantry Wisconsin
33d Infantry Illinois
34th Infantry Iowa and Nebraska
35th Infantry Kansas and Missouri
36th Infantry Texas
37th Infantry Ohio
38th Infantry Indiana
39th Infantry Arkansas and Louisiana
40th Infantry California
41st Infantry Washington and Oregon
42d Infantry New York
43d Infantry Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont
44th Infantry Illinois
45th Infantry Oklahoma
46th Infantry Michigan
47th Infantry Minnesota and North Dakota
48th Infantry Georgia
49th Infantry* California
50th Armored New Jersey
51st Infantry Florida and South Carolina
52d Infantry California

* The 52d Infantry was redesignated the 49th Infantry in 1947.

the immediate mobilization force. Maj. Gen. Ray E. Porter, director of the Special Plans Division, supported the Guard's view regarding funds and noted that facilities were not available for use by Class A divisions. Furthermore, he believed the Organized Reserve Corps divisions would compete with Guard formations for available personnel. Porter therefore proposed reclassification of all Class A divisions as Class B units. Eventually the War Department agreed and made the appropriate changes.[1]

Although the dispute over Class A units lasted several months, the War Department proceeded with the reorganization of the Organized Reserve Corps

  1. Memo, WDSSP (Special Planning Division, General and Special Staffs), for ACofS, G–3, 14 Mar 46, sub: Class A Units, Organized Reserve Corps, and Memo, WD Gen Staff, Organization and Training Division, for all WD Agencies, 20 Dec 46, sub: Clarification of WD Policies Pertaining to the National Guard and the Organized Reserve Corps, WDGOT 325 (9 Oct 46), both Army Reserve, Reference Paper files, DAMH-HSO.