9th Infantry Division (United States)
| 9th Infantry Division | |
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9th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia
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| Active | 1918–1919 1940–1947 1947–1962 1966–1969 1972–1991 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Army
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| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Division |
| Garrison/HQ | inactive |
| Nickname(s) | Old Reliables |
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| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Manton Eddy Jacob L. Devers Donald Prentice Booth Julian Ewell John Shalikashvili |
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The 9th Infantry Division ("Old Reliables") was created as the 9th Division during World War I, but never deployed overseas. Later, the division was an important unit of the United States Army in World War II and the Vietnam War. It was also activated as a peacetime readiness unit from 1947 to 1962 at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Fort Carson, Colorado, and from 1972 to 1991 as an active-duty infantry division at Fort Lewis, Washington. Nicknamed the "Old Reliables", the division was eventually inactivated in December 1991.
The shoulder sleeve insignia is an octofoil resembling a heraldic design given to the ninth son of a family. This represents the son as a circle in the middle with eight brothers around him. The blue represents the infantry, the red the artillery with all the white making the colors of the flag of the United States of America.
The 9th Infantry Division was created on 18 July 1918 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama but did not serve overseas. It was disbanded on 15 February 1919 at Camp Sheridan.
Units assigned to the 9th Division
Division Headquarters
17th Infantry Brigade
18th Infantry Brigade
9th Field Artillery Brigade
25th Machine Gun Battalion
209th Engineer Regiment
209th Field Signal Battalion
Division Trains
The 9th Infantry Division was among the first U.S. combat units to engage in offensive ground operations during World War II. (The others were the 32nd and the 41st in the Pacific on New Guinea, Carlson's Raiders on Makin Island, the 1st Marine, and the Americal on Guadalcanal, and, alongside the 9th in North Africa, were the 1st Infantry, 3rd Infantry and the 2nd Armored Divisions.) The 9th saw its first combat on 8 November 1942, when its elements landed at Algiers, Safi, and Port Lyautey, with the taking of Safi by the 3rd Battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment standing as the first liberation of a city from Axis control in World War II.
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