Original U.S. WWII Combat Medic 5th Infantry Division Grouping MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets - Presidential Unit Citation with

- Presidential Unit Citation with Oak Leaf

as it had not been known that the 1st Brigade (25th Maine and 27th Maine) were only nine-month units and their terms were about to expire

Painted truncheons are rare

each group was met at the station and trucked to the parade ground where a 34-foot-tall parachute "mock tower" had been erected

our very last M1 Parts set

Original U.S. WWII Combat Medic 5th Infantry Division Grouping MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets - Presidential Unit Citation withOriginal Items: One one of a kind set. On 16 October 1939 the 5th Division was reactivated as part of the United States mobilization in response to the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939, being formed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, under the command of Brigadier General Campbell Hodges. The following spring, in 1940, the division was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, and then temporarily to Louisiana for training exercises, before being