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The First Division War Memorial honors soldiers of the First Division, United States Army, who died in service across multiple wars. For World War One, it remembers the dead of the division’s American Expeditionary Forces service from June 1917 to September 1919 and records campaigns and operations at Sommervillier, Ansauville, Cantigny, Montdidier-Noyon, Soissons-Aisne-Marne, Saizerais, Saint Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, the Mouzon-Sedan Operation, and the Goblenz Bridgehead, alongside a Commander-in-Chief’s praise for the division’s pride in service and unbroken morale. Later additions honor the heroic dead of the First Infantry Division in World War Two, naming the theaters of Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe, and identify divisional, infantry, artillery, and attached units. Another addition honors soldiers of the First Infantry Division who made the supreme sacrifice in Vietnam from 12 July 1965 to 3 April 1970 and lists the division’s organic and attached units. A Desert Storm panel honors soldiers of the First Infantry Division (MECH) who died in Iraq and Saudi Arabia in 1991.
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