Americal Division Order of Battle

World War II

This Order of Battle is taken from the book Under the Southern Cross by Captain Francis D. Cronin. 1951

New Caledonia, 27 May 42

Assigned

Hq & Hq Det, Task Force (including attached Division Surgeons's office)
Hq & Hq Co, 51 Infantry Brigade
132 Infantry Regiment
164 Infantry Regiment
182 Infantry Regiment
1 Plat, 39 Military Police Company
26 Signal Company
72 Field Artillery Regiment (105 mm)
200 Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm)
57 Engineer Combat Battalion
101 Medical Regiment (less two companies and Divison Surgeon's office)
Finance Detachment

Attached

754 Light Tank Battalion
97 Field Artillery Pack Battalion
70 Coast Artillery Regiment (AA), less Band
3 Bn, 244 Coast Artillery Regiment (155mm)
3 Plat, Btry G, 244 Coast Artillery Regiment (155mm)
Co A, 82 Quartermaster Battalion (LM)
101 Quartermaster Rgt, less 2 Bn and additional units
352 Quartermaster Composite Company, comprising two bakery plats, QM det (morticians) and QM Co (mobile shoe repair), less one plat
1 Bn, 130 Quartermaster Regiment, less Cos A and B
705 Quartermaster Truck Company
810 Aviation Engineer Battalion (Negro)
811 Aviation Engineer Battalion (Negro)
22 Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company
51 Ordnance Ammunition Company
71 Ordnance Depot Company (composite)
1 Plat, 676 Ordnance Aviation Company
9 Station Hospital
52 Evacuation Hospital
109 Station Hospital
67 Pursuit Squadron
58 Interceptor Control Squadron (section)
3 Quartermaster Aviation Supply Company (detachment)
65 Materiel Squadron, (less det)
700 Signal Air Warning Company
Signal Detachment (Base Cmmand Det)
831 Signal Service Company
2 Chemical Decontamination Company (detachment)
502 Army Postal Unit
Remount Detachment
619 Quartermaster Aviation Light Maintenance Platoon
620 Quartermaster Aviation Light Maintenance Platoon
Army Airways Communications System detachment

Viti Levu, Fiji, 1 Oct 43

Hq & Hq Co, Americal Division
Hq Special Troops, Americal Division
Military Police Platoon, Americal Division
21 Reconnaissance Troop
26 Signal Company
57 Engineer Combat Battalion
121 Medical Battalion
125 Quartermaster Company
132 Infantry Regiment, less Cannon Co **
164 Infantry Regiment, less Cannon Co **
182 Infantry Regiment, less Cannon Co **
Hq & HQ Btry, Americal Divsion Artillery
221 Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
245 Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
246 Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
247 Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
721 Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
Band, Americal Division

** Cannon companies activated in U.S. and in training before shipment to South Pacific. Joined 3 March 1944 at Bougainville.