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10-MAY-2005

32nd

Wisconsin Army National Guard
32nd "Red Arrow" Division


Worn from:
11 November 1918 - 28 February 1946 and
15 October 1961 - 10 August 1962.

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Re-designated as the Thirty-second Infantry Brigade.
Worn from:
30 December 1967 - 18 March 1986.

The Thirty-second Division was organized from the National Guard
of Michigan and Wisconsin at Camp McArthur, Texas, during August
1917 and was re-designated in February 1942 as the Thirty-second
Infantry Division. The arrow, with a line horizontally through
the center, was chosen because the division "shot through every
line the Boche put before them."

Campaigns:
World War I
(Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne,
Alsace 1918, Champagne 1918),

World War II
(Papua, New Guinea; Leyte; Luzon;
BIsmarck Archipelago; East Indies).

Decorations:
Presidential Unit Citation Army
(streamer embroidered Papua),

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
(streamer embroidered
17 October 1944 - July 1945)

Presidential Unit Citation Army
(streamer embroidered Luzon)

French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star World War I
(streamer embroidered Aisne-Marne, and Oise-Aisne).

Canon PowerShot S50
0.60s f/2.8 at 7.1mm full exif

other sizes: small original auto
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