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80th Division (United States)
Summary
The 80th Training Command (The Army School System - TASS) is a formation of the United States Army Reserve.
The unit was first organized in August 1917 and activated the following September during World War I as the 80th Division. During World War II, the Division was redesignated on 1 August 1942, as the 80th Infantry Division. Nicknamed the "Blue Ridge Division", it was initially composed of draftees from the mid-atlantic states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Division was redesignated the 80th Airborne Division from December 1946 to May 1952. In May 1952 and March 1959, the unit was redesignated as a reserve infantry division and then a reserve training division. In 1994, the unit was granted the designation, 80th Division (Institutional Training). On 1 October 2008, the unit underwent a major transformation and is now the 80th Training Command.
Activated: September 1917
Overseas: June 1918
Major operations: Battle of the Somme (1918), Meuse-Argonne, Battle of Saint-Mihiel.
Casualties: Total-6,029. (KIA-880; WIA-5,149).
Commanders: Brig. Gen. Herman Hall (ad interim, 27 August 1917), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (9 September 1917), Brig. Gen. Loyd M. Brett (ad interim, 26 November 1917), Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson (ad interim, 28 December 1917), Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth (ad interim, 7 January 1918), Brig. Gen. Loyd M. Brett (ad interim, 14 January 1918), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (1 March 1918), Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis (22 November 1918), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (12 April 1919)
Inactivated: May 1919.
Because of significant common heritage in the past (Indian War, Revolutionary War and Civil War), residents of Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia became the structure of the 80th Division.
The 80th Division was organized in August 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia. The units were made up mostly of men from the above three states.
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