This is a story of the 90th Infantry division and its impact on the liberation of Europe. The 90th Infantry Division served in WWI and was first activated in August 1917 and served overseas in June 1918, primarily in major operations such as St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. By the end of the war, the division suffered 7,549 casualties before returning to the U.S. and was inactivated in June of 1919. The Division was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve in June 1921 and assigned to the State of Texas.
With the start of WWII, the division was ordered into active military service on March 25, 1942 at Camp Barkley, Texas.
Since the 90th originally sourced its manpower from Texas and Oklahoma, the 90th Division patch incorporates both a T and O. While sometimes referred to as the Texas–Oklahoma Division, they came to be known as the “Tough Ombres”. The 90th would then be shipped to Europe on March 1944 and arrive in England on April 5, 1944.
Along the way there was an amazing.
