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2d Battalion
151st Infantry Regiment ________________
Carl White
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Nickname: Victory
Division.
Shoulder patch: A green taro leaf bordered in yellow,
superimposed on a red circle which is bordered in black. |
During World War II, the 38th Infantry Division earned
combat streamers for three campaigns in the Southwest Pacific, including
spearheading the landings on Luzon in the Philippines that regained the
Bataan Peninsula from the Japanese. The 151st Infantry performed security
operations in the Culasian Point-Barugo area under the 24th Infantry
Division.
The division was reassembled by 4 January 1945 and landed in the San
Narcisco area of Luzon on 29 January without opposition. Subic Bay was
gained with the capture of Grande Island by a battalion of the 151st
Infantry as the port facilities at Olongapo fell 30 January 1945. The
division then commenced the drive to clear Highway 7, all three regiments
participating in the fierce Battle of Zig Zag Pass 1-14 February 1945, and
Dinalupihan fell to the 149th Infantry on 5 February. The reinforced 151st
Infantry landed at Mariveles, Bataan 15 February 1945 and defeated a major
Japanese counterattack that night. The division pushed down the east coast
road to Pilar and across the peninsula to Bagac, securing most of Bataan
Peninsula by 21 February 1945.
A battalion of the 151st Infantry was detached to relieve the 3d Bn
34th Infantry on Corregidor 24 February 1945 and assigned to
garrison the island 8 March. The division moved to Fort Stotsenburg on 10
March and relieved the 43rd Infantry Division there. It then pushed west
to destroy entrenched Japanese forces between the fort and Mt. Pinatubo.
Battalion-sized landings were conducted in the meantime by the 151st
Infantry at Caballo Island and Fort Drum (El Fraile Island) on 28 March,
and Carabao island on 16 April.
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25 February 1921 |
Activated in Hawaii as the Hawaiian Division.
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26 August 1941. |
Redesignated the 24th Infantry Division |
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Battle Honor |
New Guinea; |
Decoration |
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PAPUA |
Battle Honor |
Leyte; |
Battle Honor |
Luzon (with arrowhead) |
Decoration |
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CORREGIDOR |
Decoration |
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 October 1944
to 4 July 1945 |
1 December 1945 |
Inactivated 1 December 1945 in Japan |
1 March 1963 |
redesignated as the 18th Surgical Hospital |
26 March 1963 |
Activated at Fort Gordon, Georgia |
Battle Honors |
Vietnam: Counteroffensive;
Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet
Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V;
Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969;
Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase
VII; Consolidation I |
Decoration |
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM
1966-1967 |
Decoration |
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM
1970-1971 |
31
August 1971 |
Inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington |
18
November 1991 |
Activated at Fort Lewis, Washington |
Source: The
Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States,
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950, pp. 510-592 |
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