in 1928. World War II Federalization The division, commanded by Major General Edward Martin, was called into federal service on 17 February 1941 during World War II (although the United States was neutral at this point) at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. In February 1942, the division, now commanded by Major General James Ord, was reorganized; the brigade headquarters were disbanded, and the 111th Infantry Regiment was detached from the 28th and reorganized as a separate regimental combat team, initially used to guard important Eastern Seaboard industrial facilities under the Eastern Defense Command. Order of battle Headquarters, 28th Infantry Division 109th Infantry Regiment 110th Infantry Regiment 112th Infantry Regiment Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 28th Infantry Division Artillery 107th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) 108th Field Artillery Battalion (155 mm) 109th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) 229th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) 103rd Engineer Combat Battalion 103rd Medical Battalion 28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) Headquarters, Special Troops. 28th Infantry Division Headquarters Company, 28th Infantry Division 728th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company 28th Quartermaster Company 28th Signal Company Military Police Platoon Band 28th Counterintelligence Corps Detachment The division trained in the Carolinas, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, under the command of Major General Omar Nelson Bradley. Overseas The division, now under Major General Lloyd Brown, left the United States and went overseas on 8 October 1943, arriving in South Wales soon afterwards, where it began training for the invasion of Northern France. On 22 July 1944, the division landed in Normandy, seven weeks after the initial D-Day landings and was almost immediately involved in Operation Cobra. The 28th Infantry Division pushed east towards the French capital of Paris through the Bocage, its roads littered with abandoned tanks and bloated, stinking corpses of men and animals. In little more than a month after landing at the Normandy beachhead, as part of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the men of the 28th entered Paris and were given the honor of marching down the Champs-Elysées on 29 August 1944 in the hastily arranged Liberation of Paris. After enjoying a brief respite, absorbing replacements of men and equipment, the division, now commanded by Brigadier General Norman Cota, formerly the Assistant Division Commander (ADC) of the 29th Infantry Division, headed to the German defensive Westwall. A small night patrol of the 109th Infantry began the division's protracted struggle on the Siegfried Line on the dragon's teeth infested Westwall. The patrol