The 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt") was a formation of the United States Army in World War I and World War II. World War I The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. It was initially made up of enlisted draftees from Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a cadre of Regular Army, Officers Reserve Corps, and National Army officers. Later groups of enlisted men assigned to the division to replace men transferred to other units came from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The division went overseas in June 1918, and was designated as the 2nd Depot Division. It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. Certain divisional units saw action, such as the 332nd Infantry Regiment, in Italy (Battle of Vittorio Veneto). Its commanders were Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (25 August 1917), Brig. Gen. Frederick Perkins (13 January 1918), Brig. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook (23 March 1918), and finally Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (3 April 1918). It was demobilized in October 1919. Order of battle Headquarters, 83rd Division 165th Infantry Brigade 329th Infantry Regiment 330th Infantry Regiment 323rd Machine Gun Battalion 166th Infantry Brigade 331st Infantry Regiment 332nd Infantry Regiment 324th Machine Gun Battalion 158th Field Artillery Brigade 322nd Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 323rd Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 324th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 308th Trench Mortar Battery 322nd Machine Gun Battalion 308th Engineer Regiment 308th Field Signal Battalion Headquarters Troop, 83rd Division 308th Train Headquarters and Military Police 308th Ammunition Train 308th Supply Train 308th Engineer Train 308th Sanitary Train 329th, 330th, 331st, and 332nd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals Shoulder patch The shoulder sleeve insignia of the 83rd Division insignia consists of a letters in gold spelling out the word "O-H-I-O" on a black isosceles triangular background. The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees. Interwar period The division was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921 and assigned to the state of Ohio. The headquarters was organized on 27 September 1921. World War II Ordered into active military service: 15 August 1942 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana Overseas: 6 April 1944 Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe Days of combat: 244 Distinguished Unit Citations: 7 Awards: Medal of Honor-1; Distinguished Service Cross-7; Distinguished Service Medal-1; Silver Star-710; Legion of