Division on Cebu Derived Part of Name from New Caledonia

With the Americal Division at Cebu, March 26, 1945 (AP)

This division which landed on Cebu is the only one with a name but no number.

The name is derived from a combination of American and New Caledonia, where the Yanks trained before relieving the marines on Guadalcanal in October, 1942.

The Americal Yanks relieved the marines on Bougainville in the northern Solomons in December, 1943, then fought there a full year.

Recently, they were engaged in mopping up on Leyte.

The division commander, Major General William H. Arnold, of St. Louis, is, at 43, one of the youngest in the Army.