LC control no. | n 92083956 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | United States. Army. Infantry Division, 9th |
Variant(s) | United States. Army. Old Reliables Old Reliables |
See also | United States. Army. Division, 9th |
Found in | Waller, B.C. Commanders we knew, c1992- : v. 1, t.p. (Ninth Infantry Division, World War II) Armies, corps, divisions and separate brigades, 1987: 9th Infantry Division (constituted July 8, 1918 in the Regular Army as the 9th Division and organized at Camp Sheridan, Ala.; reorganized and redesignated Aug. 1, 1942 as the 9th Infantry Division) Wikipedia, August 16, 2016 (The 9th Infantry Division ("Old Reliables") was created as the 9th Division during World War I, but never deployed overseas. Later, the division was an important unit of the United States Army in World War II and the Vietnam War. It was also activated as a peacetime readiness unit from 1947 to 1962 at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Fort Carson, Colorado, and from 1972 to 1991 as an active-duty infantry division at Fort Lewis, Washington. Nicknamed the "Old Reliables", the division was eventually inactivated in December 1991) |