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U.S. 24th Infantry Division

24th Infantry Division
24 Infantry Division SSI.svg
24th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia, with Taro leaf
Active 1921–70
1975–96
1999–2006
Country  United States
Branch  United States Army
Type Infantry
Role Mechanized infantry
Size Division
Nickname(s) "Taro Division", "Victory Division" (special designation)
Motto(s) First to Fight
Engagements

World War II

Korean War

1958 Lebanon crisis
Gulf War

Commanders
Notable
commanders
Blackshear M. Bryan
Kenneth F. Cramer
William F. Dean
John Galvin
Henry I. Hodes
Frederick Augustus Irving
Carter B. Magruder
Barry McCaffrey
Guy S. Meloy, Jr.
Thomas F. Metz
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Edwin Walker
Frederick Woerner
Roscoe B. Woodruff
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia A hollow red circle with stars and the word "Victory", inside a green leaf
Combat service identification badge A red circle with a black outline containing a green leaf shape with a yellow outline

World War II

Korean War

1958 Lebanon crisis
Gulf War

The 24th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. It was inactivated in October 1996, it was based at Fort Stewart, Georgia and later reactivated at Fort Riley, Kansas. Formed during World War II from the disbanding Hawaiian Division, the division saw action throughout the Pacific theater, first fighting in New Guinea before landing on the Philippine islands of Leyte and Luzon, driving Japanese forces from them. Following the end of the war, the division participated in occupation duties in Japan, and was the first division to respond at the outbreak of the Korean War. For the first 18 months of the war, the division was heavily engaged on the front lines with North Korean and Chinese forces, suffering over 10,000 casualties. It was withdrawn from the front lines to the reserve force for the remainder of the war, but returned to Korea for patrol duty at the end of major combat operations.

After its deployment in the Korean War, the division was active in Europe and the United States during the Cold War, but saw relatively little combat until the Persian Gulf War, when it faced the Iraqi military. A few years after that conflict, it was inactivated as part of the post-Cold War U.S. military drawdown of the 1990s. The division was reactivated in October 1999 as a formation for training and deploying U.S. Army National Guard units before its deactivation in October 2006.


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