94th Infantry Division

Activated 15 Sep 1942  •  Entered Combat 17 Sep 1944 Normandy  •  Days of Combat 209  •  Casualties 6,533

DIVISION CHRONICLE

Activated on 15 Sep 1942

Fort Custer, MI  Sep 42 - Oct 42

Camp Phillips, KS  Nov 42 - Nov 43

Camp McCain, MS  Nov 43 - Jul 44

Camp Shanks, NY  Jul 44 - Aug 44 

Following a brief stay in England, the 94th began to land on Utah Beach on 6 September 1944, and moved into Brittany to assume responsibility for containing some 60,000 German troops besieged in the Channel ports of Lorient and St. Nazaire. The 94th inflicted over 2,700 casualties on the enemy and took 566 prisoners before being relieved on New Year's Day 1945.

Moving west, the Division took positions in the Saar-Moselle Triangle, facing the Siegfried Switch Line, 7 January 1945, and shifted to the offensive, 14 January, seizing Tettingen and Butzdorf that day. The following day, the NennigBerg-Wies area was wrested from the enemy, but severe counterattacks followed, and Butzdorf, Berg, and most of Nennig changed hands several times before being finally secured. On the 20th, an unsuccessful battalion attack against Orscholz, eastern terminus of the switch position, resulted in loss of most of two companies. In early February the Division took Campholz woods and seized Sinz. On 19 February 1945, the Division launched a full-scale attack, storming the heights of Munzigen Ridge, backbone of the Saar-Moselle Triangle, and took all objectives. Moving forward, the 10th Armored and 94th secured the area from Orscholz to the confluence of the Saar and Moselle Rivers by 21 February 1945. Then, launching an attack across the Saar, it established and expanded a bridgehead.

By 2 March 1945, the Division stretched over a 10-mile front, from Hocker Hill on the Saar through Zerf, and Lampaden to Ollmuth. A heavy German attack near Lampaden achieved penetrations, but the line was shortly restored, and on 13 March, spearheading the XX Corps, the 94th broke out of the bridgehead and drove to the Rhine, reaching that river, 21 March. Ludwigshafen was taken, 24 March, in conjunction with CCA of the 12th Armored Division.

The Division then moved by rail and motor to the vicinity of Krefeld, Germany, assuming responsibility, 3 April, for containing the west side of the Ruhr pocket from positions along the Rhine. With the reduction of the pocket in mid-April, the Division was assigned military government duties, first in the Krefeld and later in the Dusseldorf areas.

Division Organization

301st Infantry Regiment

302nd Infantry Regiment

376th Infantry Regiment 

94th Division Artillery

301st Field Artillery Battalion

356th Field Artillery Battalion

919th Field Artillery Battalion

390th Field Artillery Battalion

319th Engineer Combat Bn

319th Medical Battalion 

94th Reconnaissance Troop 

Hqs Company, 94th Division

Headquarters, Special Troops

Military Police Platoon, 94th Div

94th Quartermaster Company

94th Signal Company

794th Ordnance (Lt Maint) Co.