92nd Infantry Division (United States)

92nd Infantry Division (United States)

92nd Infantry Division (1942–1945)
Parent unit 92nd Infantry Division
Components
  • 365th Infantry Regiment
  • 366th Infantry Regiment (November 1944 – February 1945)
  • 370th Infantry Regiment
  • 371st Infantry Regiment
  • 442nd Infantry Regiment (Nisei) (April 1945– )
  • 473rd Infantry Regiment (February 1945 – May 1945)
  • 597th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
  • 598th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
  • 599th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
  • 600th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
  • 758th Tank Battalion (Colored)
  • 679th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Colored)
US infantry divisions (1939–present)
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The 92nd Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II. Organized in October 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas, the unit was formed with African American soldiers from all states. Before leaving for France in 1918, the buffalo was selected as the divisional insignia due to the Buffalo Soldiers nickname, given to African American cavalrymen by Native Americans in the 19th century. The Buffalo Soldiers Division divisional nickname was inherited from the 367th Infantry, one of the first units of the division organized. This segregated unit was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during World War II, as part of the 5th Army. It served in the Italian Campaign from 1944 to the war's end.

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