Trench Mortar Battery Headquarters Troop, 88th Division 337th Machine Gun Battalion 338th Engineer Regiment 313th Field Signal Battalion 313th Train Headquarters and Military Police 313th Ammunition Train 313th Supply Train 313th Engineer Train 313th Sanitary Train 349th, 350th, 351st, and 352nd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals Interwar period The division was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921 and assigned to the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota. The headquarters was organized on 2 September 1921. World War II Ordered into active military service: 15 July 1942, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Overseas: 6 December 1943 Distinguished Unit Citations: 3 Campaigns: Rome-Arno, North Apennines, Po Valley Days of combat: 344 Awards: Medal of Honor-3 ; Distinguished Service Cross (United States)-40 ; Distinguished Service Medal (United States)-2 ; Silver Star-522; Legion of Merit-66; Soldier's Medal-19 ; Bronze Star Medal-3,784. Unit citations: Third Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment (action vicinity Laiatico; 9–13 July 1944). Second Battalion, 350th Infantry Regiment (action on Mt. Battaglia, 27 Sept – 3 Oct 1944). Second Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment (action vicinity Mt. Cappello, 27 Sept – 1 Oct 1944). Commanders: Maj. Gen. John E. Sloan (July 1942 – September 1944) Maj. Gen. Paul W. Kendall (September 1944 – July 1945) Brig. Gen. James C. Fry (July–November 1945) Maj. Gen. Bryant Moore (November 1945 to inactivation) Inactivated: 24 October 1947 in Italy Combat chronicle First Entered combat: Advance party on night of 3–4 January 1944 in support of Monte Cassino attacks. First Organization Committed to Line: 2nd Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment plus attachments First combat fatality: 3 January 1944 Began post war POW Command: 7 June 1945. Responsible for guarding and later repatriating 324,462 German POWs. The 88th Infantry Division was one of the first all-draftee divisions of the United States Army to enter the war. Ordered into active military service at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, the division, commanded by Major General John E. Sloan, arrived at Casablanca, French Morocco on 15 December 1943, and moved to Magenta, Algeria, on 28 December for intensive training. Destined to spend the war fighting on the Italian Front, the 88th Division arrived at Naples, Italy on 6 February 1944, and concentrated around Piedimonte d'Alife for combat training. An advance element went into the line before Monte Cassino on 27 February, and the entire division relieved the battered British 46th Infantry Division along the Garigliano River in the Minturno area on 5 March.