30th Infantry Division (United States)

History

The 30th Infantry Division was a United States Army unit of the National Guard that served in World War I and World War II. It was nicknamed the "Old Hickory" division, in honor of President Andrew Jackson. The Germans nicknamed this division "Roosevelt's SS". The 30th Infantry Division, involved in 282 days of intense combat over a period from June 1944 through April 1945, was regarded by a team of historians led by S.L.A. Marshall as the American infantry division that had "performed the most efficient and consistent battle services" in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). In the present day, the division's lineage continues as 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, part of the North Carolina National Guard. The unit's most recent combat deployment was in 2019.

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Wars and campaigns

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Key dates

1. 1917
   From August 28, 1917 to May 1. 1918, the 30th Division trained at Camp Sevier in Taylors, South Carolina.
2. 1919
   The 30th Division headquarters arrived at the port of Charleston, South Carolina, aboard the USS Madawaska on 2 April 1919 after 11 months of overseas service and was demobilized on 7 May 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina.
3. 1941
   121st Infantry Regiment, in Macon (GA) (transferred on 22 November 1941 to the 8th Infantry Division)
4. 1942
   On 16 February 1942, as a part of an Army-wide reorganization of National Guard divisions, the 30th Division was reorganized as a triangular division.
5. 1942
   118th Infantry Regiment (sailed for Iceland on 5 August 1942 and was relieved from assignment to the division on 24 August 1942)
6. 1944
   It landed at Omaha Beach, Normandy, on 11 June 1944, five days after the initial D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, secured the Vire-et-Taute Canal, crossed the Vire River on 7 July.
7. 1944
   17 December 1944: Ninth Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to V Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group
8. 1945
   The end of World War II in Europe came soon afterwards and, after a short occupation period, the 30th Division began its return to the United States, arriving on 19 August 1945.
9. 1954
   In 1954, the division became an entirely North Carolina Army National Guard manned formation, as Tennessee's portion became the 30th Armored Division, which was maintained with the Alabama Army National Guard.

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Records that place someone with this unit

A unit history doesn't name everyone who served. These records do:

• Morning reports and unit rosters: access (National Personnel Records Center)
• Search Army morning reports, 1912–1946 (National Archives Catalog)
• Unit and organizational records held in St. Louis

More history

• U.S. Army Center of Military History
• Wikipedia: 30th Infantry Division (United States)