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The 88th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army that saw service in both World War I and World War II. It was the first Army of the United States division to be created "from scratch" after the implementation of the draft in 1940. Previous divisions were either Regular Army, Reserve or National Guard. Much of the experience in creating it was used in the subsequent expansion of the U.S. Army. By the end of World War II the 88th Infantry fought its way to the northernmost extreme of Italy. In early May 1945 troops of its 349th Infantry Regiment joined the 103d Infantry Division of the VI Corps of the U.S. Seventh Army, part of the 6th Army Group, which had raced south through Bavaria into Innsbruck, Austria, in Vipiteno in the Italian Alps.〔Fifth Army History • Race to the Alps, Chapter VI : Conclusion () "On 3 May the 85th and 88th () Divisions sent task forces north over ice and snow 3 feet deep to seal the Austrian frontier and to gain contact with the American Seventh Army, driving southward from Germany. The 339th Infantry (Division ) reached Austrian soil east of Dobbiaco at 0415, 4 May; the Reconnaissance Troop, 349th Infantry (Division ), met troops from (Infantry Division ) VI Corps of Seventh Army at 1051 at Vipiteno, 9 miles south of Brenner."〕 ==World War I== *Activated: 5 August 1917, Camp Dodge, Iowa *Overseas: 7 September 1918 *Major operations: Did not participate as a division *Casualties: Total-78 (KIA-12; WIA-66) *Commanders: * * Maj. Gen. Edward H. Plummer (25 August 1917) * * Brig. Gen. Robert N. Getty (27 November 1917) * * Maj. Gen. Edward H. Plummer (19 February 1918) * * Brig. Gen. Robert N. Getty (15 March 1918) * * Brig. Gen. William D. Beach (24 May 1918) * * Maj. Gen. William Weigel (10 September 1918) *Inactivated: 10 June 1919, Camp Dodge, Iowa 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「88th 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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