As of 22 Jul 2009

90th Infantry Division

The 90th “Tough “Ombres” Division was activated on 25 March 1942, at Camp Barkeley, Texas, as a
“triangular” division organized around three infantry regiments, the 357th, 358th and 359th Infantry Regiments.
On 20 May 1942, the unit was redesignated the 90th Infantry Division. Four months later, on 15 September
1942, the unit was designated the 90th Motorized Division. However, the division was again redesignated the
90th Infantry Division on 1 May 1943. Following extensive combat in the European Theater of Operations, the
division was inactivated on 27 December 1945.

In 1942 a typical infantry regiment consisted of a headquarters and band, a headquarters company, a
service company, an anti-tank company, a cannon company, and three infantry battalions.

In March 1943 the basic infantry regiment was reorganized to include a headquarters, a headquarters
company, a service company, an anti-tank company, and three infantry battalions.

Each of the three infantry battalions consisted of a headquarters and headquarters company, three rifle
companies and a heavy weapons company. Within each regiment, the 1st Battalion consisted of Companies A
through D, the 2d Battalion consisted of Companies E through H, and the 3d Battalion consisted of Companies
I through M (there was no Company J).

Name Location Rank Unit Contents

Headquarters and Headquarters Company

Arison, Harold L. Box 1 WOJG Division Bandmaster [See: 90th Infantry Division;
357th Infantry Regiment]
Kieffer, Reinhardt J. Box 1 CPT G-4 Section Survey

357th Infantry Regiment

Arison, Harold L. Box 1 WOJG Regimental Band, Survey and unit history, “The
Commanding Officer 90th infantry Division Band: Its
Birth, Fragmented Life, and
Deactivated Demise, May, 1942
Through December, 1945” [Unit
history transferred to the Library
holdings]
Ascher, Gerard Box 1 1SG 3d Battalion, Survey and artifacts [Artifacts
Company I transferred to the Army
Heritage Museum (AHM)]
Bensoni, Italo Box 1 SSG Unidentified unit Survey
Boyd, Burlingame R. Box 1 PFC 1st Battalion, Survey
Company B
Cartwright, Hassel E. Box 1 SGT 1st Battalion, Survey
Company A
First, David D. Box 1 PFC Headquarters Survey
Company
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Gunter, Jack L. Box 1 PFC Unidentified unit Survey

Hale, James Walter Box 1 PFC 2d Battalion, Survey
Company G
Kozma, Bert Box 1 PFC 1st Battalion, Two surveys
Company B
Lifschultz, Murray Box 1 T/5 3d Battalion, Survey
Company K
Lumpkin, Alva M. Box 1 SGT 1st Battalion, Survey
Company B
MacArthur, John W. Box 1 T/4 3d Battalion, Survey completed by widow
Medical Detachment
McConahey, William M. Box 1 COL 3d Battalion, Three surveys
Battalion Surgeon;
2d Battalion,
Battalion Surgeon
Schneider, Ralph W. Box 1 PFC 3d Battalion, Survey
Company I
Toms, Paul F. Box 1 PFC 3d Battalion, Publication, “Eighteen to Twenty,
Company K June 1944-July 1946, Two Years
in the Life of Paul F. Toms”
[Memoir transferred to the Library
holdings]
Witman, Robert J. Box 1 SSG 2d Battalion, Survey
Company G
Wyszynski, Chester H. Box 1 CPL 3d Battalion, Collection of letters and
Headquarters telegrams contained in two
Company folders

358th Infantry Regiment

Barkalow, James E. Box 1 PFC 1st Battalion, Survey, telegram about being
Company A missing in action and newspaper
clippings
Clark, B. J. Box 1 CPT 3d Battalion Survey
Unidentified unit
DeLario, John A. Box 1 PFC 2d Battalion, Survey and Morning Report
Company F entry for 19 August 1944
Heagy, John Box 1 T/4 Unidentified unit Survey
Herrman, Clarence H. Box 1 SSG Anti-Tank Company Survey
Hoffmeister, Theodore O. Box 1 T/5 Headquarters and Survey
Headquarters
Company
Kleindl, Eugene L. Box 1 CPL Headquarters, Survey
Medical Detachment
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McGowan, Thomas J. Box 1 SSG 1st Battalion, Extensive post-war letters and
Company C newspaper clippings regarding
his awards and decorations
Morrow, Elmer L. Box 1 SSG 3d Battalion, Survey partially completed by his
Company M brother; Christmas dinner menu
for Company M, 20th Infantry
Regiment, 25 December 1941;
single letter; Purple Heart
certificate; and official certificate
presented in memory of SSG
Morrow killed in combat on 11
June 1944
Musilek, Clarence T. Box 1 PFC 2d Battalion, Survey
Company E
Robison, Eugene N. Box 1 T/5 3d Battalion, Survey, large collection of
Company L photocopied official documents
and photographs and typed
memoir, “Following Orders in the
Infantry”
Schmidt, Vernon N. Box 1 MSG 2d Battalion, Survey
Company E
Wittig, Charles L. Box 1 SSG 3d Battalion, Survey
Company K

359th Infantry Regiment

Bowden, Mazel A. Box 2 3d Battalion, Reflections, “One Lasting

Company I Impression” and two
photographs
Daugs, Herold Box 2 SSG 3d Battalion, Survey
Company I
Harvey, Harry W. Box 2 PFC 1st Battalion, Survey
Company D
Hawk, John D. Box 2 SGT 2d Battalion, Photograph [Transferred to
Company E Photographic holdings]
Hely, Joseph W. Box 2 1LT 3d Battalion, Survey and World War II-era
Company K 2d Cavalry Regiment shoulder
patch
Jamison, Robert Box 2 SGT Unidentified unit Survey
Jordan, Vernon C. Box 2 CPT 3d Battalion, Survey
Company L
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Lynd, J. Q. Box 2 1LT 1st Battalion, Photographic history of the

Company A regiment, “Legacy of Valor” and
“Chateau de Fontenay, Episode
Tragique de la Liberation, 1944,
Utah Beach, Normandie France,”
written for the Utah Beach
Musee, Ste-Marie-du-Mont, in
conjunction with the 50th
anniversary commemoration
Meli, John Box 2 PFC 2d Battalion, Survey and reflections, “A Secret
Company F Trek to the Bulge”
Satterthwaite, Stacy T., Jr. Box 2 SSG 3d Battalion, Survey
Company L
Sunde, Milton L. Box 1 CPT [See: 76th Infantry Division;
385th Infantry Regiment
Talbott, Orwin C. Box 2 LTG Headquarters, Survey
Operations Officer;
3d Battalion,
Commanding Officer
Toth, Nick, Jr. Box 2 PFC 1st Battalion, Survey
Company D

90th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized)

Leroux, John J. Box 2 SSG Survey, photographs, Separation

Qualification Record, and map
depicting the route of the 11th
Cavalry Regiment across Europe
Schoenfeld, Harold Box 2 SGT Survey

315th Engineer Combat Battalion

Garrelts, Wayne E. Box 2 PFC Headquarters and Survey

Service Company
Hughes, Blake Box 2 SSG Company C Survey

315th Medical Battalion

Arison, Harold L. Box 2 WOJG Company D [See: 90th Infantry Division;

357th Infantry Regiment]
McConahey, William M. Box 2 COL Unidentified unit [See: 90th Infantry Division;
357th Infantry Regiment]
Stone, Victor V. Box 2 WOJG Headquarters and Survey and several official
Headquarters documents
Detachment
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90th Division Artillery

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery

Dossogne, Victor J. Box 2 Chaplain Two copies of memoirs, “Father

Vic’s Memories of World War II:
How a Belgium Priest Escaped
German Occupied Europe,
Became an American Army
Chaplain, and Made the D-Day
Landing in Normandy” [Memoir
transferred to the Library
holdings]
Roberts, James M. Box 2 CPT Silver Star citation and
reflections on the battle for which
he was awarded the Silver Star

343d Field Artillery Battalion

Culley, James F. Box 2 PFC Unidentified unit Survey

Hively, Henry L. Box 2 Unidentified unit Unit roster published as of 4
June 1991
Judd, Daniel S. Box 2 T/5 Battery A Survey
Rubenstein, Philip G. Box 2 PFC Battery A Survey; 343d Field Artillery
Battalion’s 1944 unit
Christmas card; Supreme
Headquarters Allied
Expeditionary Force’s flyer to
members of the Allied
Expeditionary Force conveying
gratitude and admiration for
having achieved victory;
newspaper clippings; run of 90th
Division Artillery’s Cannoneers
Post (15 July 1945 through 22
September 1945); and run of
343d Field Artillery Battalion’s
Fuse Quick (2 June 1945
through 8 September 1945)
[Cannoneers Post and Fuse
Quick transferred to the
Periodical holdings]

344th Field Artillery Battalion

McConahey, William M. Box 2 COL Headquarters, [See 90th Infantry Division;

Battalion Surgeon 357th Infantry Regiment]

Swatosh, Robert B. Box 2 LTC Unidentified unit Two surveys

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915th Field Artillery Battalion

Moore, Robert E. Box 2 LTC Battery C; Survey and published memoir,

Battery B; “Upstarts: Memories of the
Headquarters Battery 915th Field Artillery Battalion and
the 359th Regimental Combat
Team of the 90th Division in
World War II” [Unit history
transferred to the Library
holdings]

345th Field Artillery Battalion

Sherman, Guy C., Jr. Box 2 WO1 Service Battery Survey

Special Troops

Headquarters Company

790th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company

90th Quartermaster Company

90th Signal Company

Military Police Platoon

Naylor, William J. Box 2 CPL Survey

Attached/Unidentified Units

The attached units noted below supported the 90th Infantry Division at some point during the war, but
were not organic to the division. Unidentified unit means that the veteran’s survey indicated service with the
90th Infantry Division, but did not provide sufficient information regarding the specific subordinate unit.

Cohen, Nathan Box 2 CPL Unidentified unit Partial survey

Company E
Fischgrund, Harold S. CPT 86th Chemical Mortar [See: Chemical Corps;
Battalion, 86th Chemical Mortar
Company C Battalion]
Haynes, Louis Box 2 PFC Unidentified unit Survey
Tarpey, James W. Box 2 CPL 712th Tank Battalion, [See: Armor - Tank Battalions;
Headquarters 712th Tank Battalion]
Company
Unger, Gilbert S. Box 2 PFC 537th Antiaircraft [See: Antiaircraft Artillery
Artillery (AW) Battalion Battalions; 537th Antiaircraft
(Mobile), Battery B Artillery (AW) Battalion
(Mobile)]
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Worcester, Kenneth E. Box 2 1LT 773d Tank Destroyer [See: Armor - Tank Destroyer
Battalion, Battalions; 773d Tank
Company C Destroyer Battalion]
Zonge, George S. Box 2 MSG Unidentified unit Survey

Box 3

90th Infantry Division Official Documents / Reports

Headquarters

Monthly After Action Reports for June 1944

Monthly After Action Reports for July 1944
Special Report, Battle of the Foret de Mont Castre, July 8-10, 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for August 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for September 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for October 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for November 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for December 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for January 1945
Monthly After Action Reports for February 1945
Monthly After Action Reports for March 1945
Monthly After Action Reports for April 1945
Monthly After Action Reports for May 1945
List of the Division’s Battle Deaths by Unit

357th Infantry Regiment

Monthly After Action Reports for June through December 1944

After Action Report, Metz-Koenigsmacher Bridgehead Operation, November 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for January through May 1945

358th Infantry Regiment

Monthly After Action Reports for June and July 1944

Monthly After Action Reports for August and September 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for October through December 1944

Box 4

Monthly After Action Reports for January and February 1945

Monthly After Action Reports for March through May 1945
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359th Infantry Regiment

Monthly After Action Reports for June through December 1944

After Action Report, Metz-Koenigsmacher Bridgehead Operation, November 1944
Monthly After Action Reports for January through May 1945

315th Engineer Combat Battalion

Combat History for May 1944 through May 1945

343th Field Artillery Battalion

Monthly After Action Reports for June 1944 through May 1945

344th Field Artillery Battalion

Monthly After Action Reports for June 1944 through May 1945

345th Field Artillery Battalion

Monthly After Action Reports for June through December 1944

Monthly After Action Reports for January through May 1945

915th Field Artillery Battalion

Monthly After Action Reports for June 1944 through May 19445