97th Infantry Division

97th Infantry Division Patch. original, WW2.

The 97th Infantry Division is an infantry division of the US Army, created during the First World War and then re-founded during the Second World War.

It appeared on September 5, 1918, at the end of the First World War, and disappeared on November 20, when the armistice of November 11, 1918 put an end to the need to maintain the many American divisions created two years ago. Therefore, she does not know the fight. It was remobilized on February 25, 1943 in Camp Swift in Texas and underwent training to prepare it for amphibious assaults, because it was planned to fight on the Pacific front. However, due to heavy American losses with the Battle of the Bulge, she was finally sent to Europe in February 1945 to participate in the later stages of the German campaign, notably the Ruhr Pocket. It also contributed to the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, alongside the 90th Infantry Division, at the end of April 1945. It then entered Czechoslovakia, seizing the town of Egra. In general, the last American shot in the war on the European front is attributed to Private Dominic Mozzetta, a member of the division, on the evening of May 7. After the German surrender on May 8, 1945, it was quickly transferred to the Pacific front. After the Japanese surrender on September 2, she finally became part of the forces responsible for the occupation of Japan, arriving in Yokohama on September 25. She was demobilized on March 31, 1946.