83d Infantry Division cut edge

83d Infantry Division cut edge Patch. original, WW2. The 83rd Infantry Division was recreated on August 15, 1942 under the command of General Frank W. Milburn. In January 1944, command of the division passed to General Robert C. Macon and it landed in Great Britain on April 6, 1944, where it trained in Wales, before landing in France on June 18, 1944, at Omaha Beach. From June 27, it was engaged in the Battle of the Haies south of Carentan, where it encountered strong opposition until July 25. After a period of replacement and training, the division took to the road and arrived at Chateauneuf on August 5, Dinard on August 7 and laid siege to Saint-Malo, which was liberated on August 17. Part of the elements remained in place, until September 2, facing the island of Cézembre, whose garrison refused to surrender, while the main forces stationed south of Rennes carried out reconnaissance and protection of the north shore. de la Loire On September 16, 1944, on the Beaugency bridge, Major General Botho Henning Elster, 18,850 men and 754 officers surrendered to the 83rd Division. The division then moved towards Luxembourg, which it reached on September 25, immediately replacing the 28th Infantry Division at Remich. It carried out patrols along the Moselle and contained several counter-attacks before liberating Grevenmacher and Echternach then advancing towards the Siegfried Line and the Sauer on October 7 and attacking the Konz region on November 5. The division then fights in the forest of Hürtgen then in the Ardennes and attacks, on December 27, Rochefort to try to reduce the salient. On January 22, 1945, the division was put to rest and replenished. On March 23 as part of Operation Grenade, it advanced towards the Rhine and seized Neuss then crossed, on March 29, the Rhine south of Wesel and advanced in the plain of Münster towards the Weser, which she crosses at Bodenwerder. The German troops being disintegrated, the 83rd Division took Halle on April 6, crossed the Leine on April 8, 1945, pushed eastward into the Harz region and then seized Barby on the Elbe on April 13, where it established a head of the bridge. On April 11, 1945 the 83rd discovered Langenstein-Zwieberge, an annex of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The soldiers discover, in the camp, nearly 1,100 detainees, malnourished and in very poor physical condition. The 83rd reported that the death rate in this camp was 500 per month and that prisoners were forced to work 16 hours a day in nearby mines, then, when they became too weak to work, they were shot. After the camp was liberated, the death rate continued to be around 25-50 people per day, due to the extreme physical weakness of the prisoners. In order to slow the spread of disease and death, the 83d Division ordered the town's German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. Medical supplies were requisitioned from US Army field hospitals. In addition, the 83rd Division recovered documents that were used by war crimes investigators