Allied units of world war two

The 1st (US) Infantry Division

The 1st Infantry Division was established in 1917 to

participate in the fighting in France and faced the major

German offensives of 1918. During the Second World War,

it effected its first assault landing in North Africa in 1942.

Then followed the invasion of Sicily, D-Day in Normandy, the battle

of the Bulge and the conquest of the Reich, as far as Czechoslovakia.

According to the division lore, at the time, the U.S. Army

consisted of the First Infantry Division and eight million

replacements ! Thanks to hundreds of historical pictures, the reader

will follow the Big Red One's glorious path in its most

difficult assignments.