101st Information



101st Division Timeline


    •    Constituted 23 July 1918 in the National Army as Headquarters, 101st Division


    •    Organized 2 November 1918 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi


    •    Demobilized 11 December 1918 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi


    •    Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 101st Division


    •    Organized 10 September 1921 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin


    •    Redesignated 31 March 1942 as Division Headquarters, 101st Division


    •    Disbanded 15 August 1942  concurrently, reconstituted in the Army of the United States as              HQ, 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana


    •    Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France


    •    Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army


    •    Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky


    •    Inactivated 27 May 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky


    •    Activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky


    •    Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky


    •    Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina


    •    Reorganized & redesignated 3 February 1964 as HQ & HQ Company, 101st Airborne Division


Active 


1921–1942 15 August
1942–30 November 1945
1948–1950
1954–present



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Distinctive Unit Insignia 


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Combat Service Identification Badge 


Campaign Participation


    •    World War I (2nd and 3rd Brigades Only):
    1.    Hundred Days Offensive

          (known as the Battle of Saint-Quentin or the 2nd Battle of the Somme)
    2.    Meuse-Argonne Offensive
    3.    Picardy 1918



    •    World War II (except 159th Aviation Brigade):
    1.    Normandy (with arrowhead)
    2.    Rhineland (with arrowhead)
    3.    Ardennes-Alsace
    4.    Central Europe


Decorations


Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for NORMANDY (Division and 1st Brigade Only)
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BASTOGNE (Division and 1st Brigade Only)


Division commanders

MG William C. Lee: August 1942 to February 1944


BG Don F. Pratt:  6th February 1944 to 14th March 1944


MG Maxwell D. Taylor:  March 1944 to August 1945


BG Anthony C. McAuliffe: 5th December 1944 to 26th December 1944


BG William N. Gillmore: August 1945 to September 1945


BG Gerald St. C. Mickle: September 1945 to October 1945


BG Stuart Cutler: October 1945 to November 1945


MG William R. Schmidt: July 1948 to May 1949