My neighbor and I were talking as both our dads had fought in WW2. It turns out both were at Okinawa. My dad ws in 7th ID. He showed me this ancient book of the 96th ID which had pictures of them fighting in Europe. I googled and verified that the 96th fought in the Phillipines and on Okinawa. So what is up with the European stuff. Can anyone find out if they were transfered to the Pacific theater in early 1945 from Europe. NOthing I could find ever mentions European Theater

Steve, it couldn't have been the 96th in that book. According to the history I found, the unit deployed in July of 1944 from the US to Hawaii, with all further duty in the Pacific.


http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/4096/history.html

Tom

I went back and took a much closer look in detail at the book and realized it was just about their stateside training. All the pictures showing combat in Europe were not of that divsion and merely used to explain why they trained as they did. It ws kind of like a yearbook, only they did not name individuals or have individual portraits.

For the ones that are interested:

96th DEADEYE INFANTRY DIVISION
Commanding Officer: Major/General James Bradley

August 1942 Activated Camp Adair, Oregon
May 1943 To Fort Lewis, Wa
July 1943 To Bend, OR Manuver Area
November 1943 To Camp White, OR
March 1944 To California for amphibious training
July 1944 To Hawaii, more amphibious training
October 1944 To Phillippines, Leyte
March 1945 Left Phillippines
April 1945 Attacked Okinawa
June 1945 Asst Commander, General Claudius Easley, killed
July 1945 To Philippines
January 1946 To United States
February 1946 Deactivated