35^th Infantry Division

The 35th Infantry Division arrived over Omaha Beach on July 5–8, 1944, and the 137th Infantry Regiment attacked along the Vire River on July 11 while the 320th Infantry Regiment pressed north of Saint-Lô. Fighting through bocage terrain, the division defeated twelve German counterattacks at Émélie and entered Saint-Lô on July 18 before crossing the Vire on August 2. Diverted to the Mortain corridor when the German armored counteroffensive struck on August 7, the division helped rescue a trapped battalion of the 30th Infantry Division before racing east with Third Army, seizing Orléans on August 18 and the 137th Infantry forcing the Moselle at Crévéchamps on September 11.

The 134th Infantry Regiment led the division into the bridgehead near Nancy on September 15, recovering Agincourt in hard fighting on September 21. The autumn Lorraine campaign brought prolonged combat at Morhange, Sarreguemines, and the Saar crossings; the 134th Infantry and 320th Infantry assaulted across the Saar on December 7, Sarreguemines fell in house-to-house fighting by December 11, and the division attacked across the Blies before withdrawing to Metz.

Moving to Arlon, Belgium on December 25, the division fought thirteen days against four German divisional attacks in the Ardennes. The 137th Infantry took Villers-la-Bonne-Eau by assault on January 10, 1945, and the 320th Infantry cleared Lutrebois in a five-day engagement before the division returned to rest.

In February 1945 the division crossed the Roer, reached the Rhine at Wesel, and crossed the river on March 25–26. It then advanced rapidly east across northwestern Germany, reaching the Elbe in April. Its campaign was defined by sustained combat from Normandy through Lorraine and the Ardennes into the heart of Germany.