91st Inf Division

Genuine WWII shoulder badge of the 91st Infantry Division.

In September 1918, the division had its first operation in the Saint-Mihiel offensive.

After Saint-Mihiel, the division was sent to the Meuse-Argonne sector. Almost every other US division deployed to the Meuse-Argonne had good combat experience. The 91st did not have much experience and despite this it was particularly successful in this campaign, successfully participating in the destruction of the first division of the German Guard, passing the three lines of German defense.

Despite the fact that this offensive was the division's first entry into a major battle, it captured more artillery, machine guns and prisoners and advanced a greater distance under fire than many other divisions which had a much longest combat experience.

In the Flanders campaign, the 91st attacked in the morning fogs of October 31. And from that moment until the very moment of capitulation, on November 11, at 11:00 a.m., the division continually pushed the enemy back in panic.

The 91st Infantry also campaigned in Lorraine and Ypres-Lys.

Total losses of the 91st division in the first war: 6,108 soldiers and officers – 1,134 killed and 4,974 wounded.

After the Armistice, elements of the 166th Artillery Brigade moved to Germany and occupied the village of Wittlich until February 1919.

The survivors of the division returned home in April 1919.

During the Second World War, it was engaged in the Italian campaign from January 1944 to May 1945.