The 75th IC was activated as the 75th Infantry Division in World War II. Inactivated in 1945, it was reactivated in 1952 at Houston, Texas, from the assets of the disbanded 22nd Armored Division of the United States Army Organized Reserves. It was active as an Infantry Division from 1952 to 1957, when it was reorganized and redesignated as the 75th Maneuver Area Command (MAC), and given responsibility for planning and conducting Field Training Exercises (FTX) and Command Post Exercises (CPX) for all Reserve Component units west of the Mississippi River. In 1993, the 75th MAC was redesignated as the 75th Division (Training Support) in the Army Reserve, which in later years became designated the 75th Training Command. In January 2003, numerous units of the 75th were mobilized to train other Army Reserve and Army National Guard units deploying overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF). In January 2018, the 75th was reorganized into the 75th Innovation Command with its training divisions reassigned to the 84th Training Command.[2]
Lineage
Constituted 24 December 1942, in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 75th Infantry Division.
Further assigned 17 February 1945 to the Ninth Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to the British Second Army for operations and the British VIII Corps for administration. Entered Belgium.
Withdrew to the Netherlands on 18 February 1945.
Finally assigned 1 March 1945 to the XVI Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
Entered Germany on 10 March 1945.
Was located at Werdohl, Germany, on 14 August 1945
Returned to Continental US at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on 14 November 1945, and proceeded to Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 75th Infantry Division Artillery
730th Field Artillery Battalion (155 mm)
897th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm)
898th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm)
899th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm)
275th Engineer Combat Battalion
375th Medical Battalion
75th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized)
Headquarters, Special Troops, 75th Infantry Division
Headquarters Company, 75th Infantry Division
775th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
75th Quartermaster Company
575th Signal Company
Military Police Platoon
Band
75th Counterintelligence Corps Detachment
Combat chronicle
Soldiers of the 290th Infantry Regiment in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge (Amonines, Belgium 4 January 1945)
These combat chronicles, current as of October 1948, are drawn from The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States.[4]
The 75th Infantry Division arrived in Britain, 22 November 1944; headquarters having arrived on 2 November 1944. After a brief training program, the division landed at Le Havre and Rouen, 13 December, and bivouacked at Yvetot on the 14th. When the Von Rundstedt offensive broke in the Ardennes, the 75th was rushed to the front and entered defensive combat, 23 December 1944, alongside the Ourthe River, advanced to the Aisne River, and entered Grandmenil, 5 January 1945. The division relieved the 82d Airborne Division along the Salm River, 8 January, and strengthened its defensive positions until 17 January when it attacked, taking Vielsalm and other towns in the area.
Men of the 75th Division trudge through the snow toward the Salm River, near Arbrefontaine, Belgium, to relieve the 82nd Airborne Division.
Shifting to the Seventh Army area in Alsace—Lorraine, the 75th crossed the Colmar Canal, 1 February, and took part in the liberation of Colmar and in the fighting between the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains. It crossed the Marne-Rhine Canal and reached the Rhine, 7 February. After a brief rest at Lunéville, it returned to combat, relieving the 6th British Airborne Division on a 24-mile (39 km) defensive front along the Meuse (Maas), near Roermond, in the Netherlands, on 21 February. From 13 to 23 March, the 75th patrolled a sector along the west bank of the Rhine from Wesel to Homburg, and probed enemy defenses at night.
On 24 March, elements crossed the Rhine in the wake of the 30th and 79th Divisions. Pursuit of the enemy continued as the 75th cleared the Haard Forest, 1 April, crossed the Dortmund-Ems Canal on the 4th, and cleared the approaches to Dortmund, which fell to the 95th Division, 13 April. Around the same time, troops of the division liberated Stalag VI-A, a POW camp where thousands of Soviet and Polish prisoners of war had died of malnutrition and disease. After taking Herdecke, 13 April, the division moved to Braumbauer for rest and rehabilitation, then took over security and military government duties in Westphalia. The father of Randy Pausch was wounded and received a Bronze Star during this time, as related in The Last Lecture.
CSM Wilfred H. Mathis, Jr. (April 1973 to July 1982)
CSM Obie B. Johnson (July 1982 to January 1987)
CSM Richard J. Danielson (January 1987 to April 1993)
CSM Richard J. Danielson (April 1993 to June 1993)
CSM Lawrence W. Holland (June 1993 to May 1996)
CSM Philip R. Kraus (May 1996 to September 1999)
CSM John Proffit (October 1999 to August 2001)
CSM Jerry A. Blair (December 2001 to December 2005)
CSM Thomas Boyce (December 2005 to November 2007)
CSM Thomas Boyce (November 2007 to August 2008)
CSM Paul Belanger (August 2008 to August 2011)
CSM Luther Thomas (August 2011 to September 2011)
CSM Luther Thomas (October 2011 to November 2012)
CSM Ronnie Farmer (November 2012 to October 2016)
CSM Richard T. Schoenberger (October 2016 to April 2019)
CSM Krystal Florquist (April 2019 - June 2023)
CSM Sherri L. Turner (June 2023 - present)
Current units
Also now known as the U.S. Army Reserve Innovation Command (USARIC),[7] as of January 2018, this unit was designated as the 75th Innovation Command and all previously subordinate units outside of headquarters and headquarters company were assigned to the 84th Training Command.
Current Mission: "The 75th Innovation Command drives operational innovation, concepts, and capabilities to enhance the readiness and lethality of the Future Force by leveraging the unique skills, agility, and private sector connectivity of America's Army Reserve."[8] USARIC is designed to be in direct support of Army Futures Command. With a requirement for senior officers and NCOs to research and publish thought leadership, there are several publications across disciplines by its members.[9][10][11][12]
Current Commander and Command Sergeant Major are MG Martin F. Klein and CSM Kristal Florquist.[13] Current Deputy Commander is BG Robert E. Guidry.[14]
J. W. Milam – Small businessman in Mississippi, known for confessing to lynching black teenager Emmett Till in a magazine interview after acquittal by a local all-white jury[16]
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