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83rd Infantry Division (United States)
Summary
The 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt") was a formation of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.
The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. It was initially made up of enlisted draftees from Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a cadre of Regular Army, Officers Reserve Corps, and National Army officers. Later groups of enlisted men assigned to the division to replace men transferred to other units came from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The division went overseas in June 1918, and was designated as the 2nd Depot Division. It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. Certain divisional units saw action, such as the 332nd Infantry Regiment, in Italy (Battle of Vittorio Veneto). Its commanders were Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (25 August 1917), Brig. Gen. Frederick Perkins (13 January 1918), Brig. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook (23 March 1918), and finally Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (3 April 1918). It was demobilized in October 1919.
Headquarters, 83rd Division
165th Infantry Brigade
329th Infantry Regiment
330th Infantry Regiment
323rd Machine Gun Battalion
166th Infantry Brigade
331st Infantry Regiment
332nd Infantry Regiment
324th Machine Gun Battalion
158th Field Artillery Brigade
322nd Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)
323rd Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)
324th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm)
308th Trench Mortar Battery
322nd Machine Gun Battalion
308th Engineer Regiment
308th Field Signal Battalion
Headquarters Troop, 83rd Division
308th Train Headquarters and Military Police
308th Ammunition Train
308th Supply Train
308th Engineer Train
308th Sanitary Train
329th, 330th, 331st, and 332nd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals
The shoulder sleeve insignia of the 83rd Division insignia consists of a letters in gold spelling out the word "O-H-I-O" on a black isosceles triangular background. The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees.
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