The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. The division was inactivated in 1996 and has been reconstituted as the 76th US Army Reserve Operational Response Command in 2013.
Activated: August 1917 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts
Overseas: August 1918
Commanders: Maj. Gen. H. F. Hodges (5 August 1917), Brig. Gen. William Weigel (28 November 1917), Maj. Gen. H. F. Hodges (13 February 1918)
Inactivated: May 1919
Headquarters, 76th Division
151st Infantry Brigade
301st Infantry Regiment
302nd Infantry Regiment
302nd Machine Gun Battalion
152nd Infantry Brigade
303rd Infantry Regiment
304th Infantry Regiment
303rd Machine Gun Battalion
151st Field Artillery Brigade
301st Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm)
302nd Field Artillery Regiment (4.7 inch)
303rd Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm)
301st Trench Mortar Battery
301st Machine Gun Battalion
301st Engineer Regiment
301st Field Signal Battalion
Headquarters Troop, 76th Division
301st Train Headquarters and Military Police
301st Ammunition Train
301st Supply Train
301st Engineer Train
301st Sanitary Train
301st, 302nd, 303rd, and 304th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals
After arrival in France in July 1918, the division, less its 302nd Infantry Regiment and 151st Field Artillery Brigade, was designated as the 3rd Depot Division on 3 August 1918. Most of its troops were used as replacements for front line units which reduced the division to 7,000 troops. The division was skeletonized on 7 November 1918 - four days before the Armistice.
The division was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921 and assigned to the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The headquarters was organized on 1 September 1921.
Ordered into active military service: 15 June 1942 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Overseas: 10 December 1944
Campaigns: Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, Central Europe
Days of combat: 107
Distinguished Unit Citations: 2
Awards: MH-2 ; DSC-11 ; DSM-1 ; SS-176; LM-5; SM19 ; BSM-1,312 ; AM-58
Commanders: Maj.