; (12) the 1st Infantry Division played pivotal roles in the liberation of France and Belgium, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine River, and the invasion and defeat of Nazi Germany; (13) after the war, the 1st Infantry Division supported and secured the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg, Germany, guarding infamous Nazi officials during the courtroom proceedings; (14) 17 1st Infantry Division soldiers received the Medal of Honor in World War II; (15) the 1st Infantry Division was the only United States combat division in Europe from 1946 to 1951, returning to the United States and Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1955; (16) the 1st Infantry Division was one of the first 2 combat divisions deployed to Vietnam in 1965, defending the vital Highway 13 corridor against enemy infiltration from Cambodia to the capital at Saigon; (17) the 1st Infantry Division fought gallantly in Operation Junction City, the largest operation of the war, in 1967 and in all 3 waves of the Tet Offensive in 1968; (18) 12 1st Infantry Division soldiers received the Medal of Honor in Vietnam; (19) the 1st Infantry Division deterred Soviet aggression against NATO Europe from 1970 to 1990 with a brigade in Germany and the rest of the division deploying there annually from Fort Riley in REFORGER exercises that demonstrated United States capability and resolve until the Cold War ended; (20) the 1st Infantry Division deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1991 in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, attacking to breach the Iraqi defenses, racing across the desert with the VII Corps of the United States Army, destroying the Iraqi Republican Guard Tawakalna Division; (21) the 1st Infantry Division enforced international peace agreements in Bosnia for 31 months between 1996 and 2000, for 4 months in Macedonia in 1999, and for 22 months in Kosovo between 1999 and 2003