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The 6th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II, and the last years of the Cold War. Known as "Red Star", and formerly called the "Sight Seein' Sixth".〔 ==World War I== Activated: November 1917 Subordinate Units: *11th * *51st, 52d, 17th Machine Gun Battalion *12th Infantry Brigades * *53d & 54th Infantry Regiments & 18th Machine Gun Battalion *16th Machine-Gun Battalion (Divisional Troops) *Field Artillery Battalions: 3d, 11th & 78th The division went overseas in June 1918, and saw 43 days of combat. Casualties totalled 386 (KIA: 38; WIA: 348). The 6th Division saw combat in the Geradmer sector, Vosgee, France, 3 September – 18 October 1918, and during the Meuse-Argonne offensive from 1–11 November 1918.〔George B. Clark, The American Expeditionary Force in World War I: A Statistical History 1917-1919, McFarland, 2012, ISBN 0786472235, 9780786472239, p.106〕 Separately the 11th Field Artillery Battalion became engaged earlier in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and fought from 19 October to the Armistice. The division returned to U.S.: June 1919. Deactivated: 30 September 1921 at Camp Grant, Illinois 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「6th Infantry Division (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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