US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Carson, CO)

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Brigadier General JOSEPH B. CRAWFORD Assistant Division Commander 9th Infantry Division

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fffkfory of fire 91W Dfiflklbn - - Me 0la' Rehhblesu Morocco . Tunisia , Sicily . Normandy St. Lo Rhur Pocket To the soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division these names are as real as the steel-grey of the guns they shoulder. For these names comprise the for- midable record of the 9th - the Old Reliable, The men in this division may not have fought these battles, but you can be sure they know the story of troops which battered and hammered their wav across the sands of Africa, the hills of Sicily and into the hordes of enemv defenders on the European continent during SVorld War II. In July, 1936 the 9th Division celebrated its 38th anniversary as a combat- readv combat-proven team . Its history stretches back to july 1918 at Camp Sheridan, Ala, when present units of the 9th saw action during YVorld Har I campaigns. The 39th Infantry. the Falcons. saw action on the battlefields of France as they joined in the Aisne-Nlarne offensive which proved to be the turning point of WYYI and eventually cleared the wav for Allied victory. The whole division was reactivated on August 1, 1940, and began training for its YVorld IVar II role at ft. Bragg, N. C. Elements of the 9th began leaving for the North African Theater of Operation in late 1942. Major combat achievements include spearheading the invasion of North Africa and Sicily, cutting off the Cotentin Peninsula in France and reducing the Ruhr Pocket.