part in clearing the Ruhr Pocket until 13 April. The division then went on occupation duty, in the Dortmund, Sudetenland, and Bavarian areas successively, until its return to the United States and inactivation. CasualtiesTotal battle casualties: 15,203Killed in action: 2,476Wounded in action: 10,971Missing in action: 579Prisoner of war: 1,186 Assignments in European Theater of Operations 18 April 1944: VIII Corps, Third Army. 29 May 1944: Third Army but attached to VII Corps, First Army. 30 June 1944: Third Army, but attached to First Army. 1 July 1944: VIII Corps. 1 August 1944: VIII Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group. 8 August 1944: XV Corps. 24 August 1944: XV Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to First Army. 26 August 1944: XV Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group. 29 August 1944: XII Corps. 7 September 1944: XV Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group. 29 September 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to the XV Corps, Seventh Army, 6th Army Group. 25 November 1944: XV Corps, Seventh Army, 6th Army Group. 5 December 1944: VI Corps. 6 February 1945: Seventh Army, 6th Army Group. 17 February 1945: Seventh Army, 6th Army Group, but attached to the XVI Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group. 1 March 1945: XIII Corps. 7 March 1945: XVI Corps. 7 April 1945: XVI Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group. 79th Sustainment Support Command The 79th Infantry Division is now the 79th Sustainment Support Command (SSC) headquartered at Joint Forces Training Base (JFTB) Los Alamitos, California. The 79th SSC was officially activated on 1 December 2009 with the mission of providing trained, ready, cohesive, well-led sustainment units for worldwide deployment to meet the U.S. Army's rotational and contingency mission requirements in support of the National Military Strategy. The 79th SSC is the higher headquarters of over 20,000 U.S. Army Reserve sustainment soldiers organized into over 200 units dispersed throughout the western half of the United States. Major subordinate commands of the 79th SSC include the 4th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in San Antonio, Texas, the 311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Los Angeles, California, the 364th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Marysville, Washington, and the 451st Expeditionary Sustainment Command in Wichita, Kansas. As the operational command posts of a theater sustainment command – the ESCs plan, coordinate synchronize, monitor, and control operational- level sustainment operations for Army service component commands, joint task forces and joint forces commands throughout