USAR Combat Divisions, 1962 (Twilight 1964)

[mcchordsage]

Sure, it'll go in the next round swaghauler!

The non-divisional units aren't anywhere close to complete. Not within any sort of circle of probable error even. What's on that list is whatever came up during my other research, essentially. Most of that means units that received Reserve Commendations in 1960-1963, got mentioned in Army Reserve Magazine articles, or cropped up in US Army Expansion, 1961-1962. There's a lot of talk in DoA reports about numbers of units called up or included in different force strengths but very little on what those units were, making it hard for me to get a firm grasp on things like corps or army artillery assets.

Your unit was called up during the Berlin Crisis, though, for the record. I suppose I should just comb the Field Artillery Lineage Series volumes for non-divisional units and sweep the CARL digital library for sources again. Frankly, there's been so little response overall it's hard to stay motivated. Expanding the National Guard division coverage is fairly easy and I've still called a halt on it.

[mcchordsage]

New version now includes: 26th ID, 40th AD, 48th AD, 49th AD, 50th AD, all non-divisional USAR artillery units, formatting updates, alterations to artillery weapon type formatting.

At the risk of falling prey to hubris, I'm calling it here except for future formatting or editing fixes. There's a good deal of information available on the Regular Army divisions of the early 1960s and it doesn't really appeal to me, so, National Guard and Army Reserve is where it stops. Hopefully someone will get use out of this.

If you have any information, comments, critiques, or general suggestions PM me or post a comment to this web zone like swaghauler did.

[Matt Wiser]

Thanks! This will also be useful in the Red Dawn timeline, where new divisions are being raised by the U.S. Army in the aftermath of the Soviet-led invasion.

[mcchordsage]

There's a great document the Army put out in 1963 looking back at the lessons learned during the Berlin Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis build-ups. It's got a lot of interesting lessons for how the big wheels were looking at preparing for the next crisis (and maybe war).

(It's a three-parter.)

My basic assumption (I know, ass out of you and me, yada yada, we're talking about an imaginary conflict) is that the ROAD reorganization never gets carried through as the Army desperately tries to activate, man, and equip the units on active duty as well as reserve component formations. Everything listed here is still on the "Pentomic" or ROCID TOE from circa 1960 through late 1963.

[unkated]

Formatting suggestion (w/o the extra lines):

32nd Infantry Division (National Guard)*

-1st Battle Group, 127th Infantry
-2nd Battle Group, 127th Infantry
-3rd Battle Group, 127th Infantry
-1st Battle Group, 128th Infantry
-2nd Battle Group, 128th Infantry

Armored/Cav

-2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, 105th Armor
-1st Medium Tank Battalion, 105th Armor

Division Artillery

-1st Howitzer Battalion, 120th Field Artillery
-2nd Howitzer Battalion, 120th Field Artillery
-1st Howitzer Battalion, 121st Field Artillery
-2nd Howitzer Battalion, 121st Field Artillery
-3rd Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 121st Field Artillery (Honest John)
-2nd Howitzer Battalion, 126th Field Artillery

DISCOM

-732nd Ordnance Battalion
-724th Engineer Battalion
-135th Medical Battalion
-132nd Signal Battalion
-232nd Transportation Battalion
-32nd Quartermaster Company
-32nd Aviation Company
-32nd Administration Company
-232nd Aircraft Maintenance Detachment

If you wish, I can send you simple instructions for MS Word to do this.

Uncle Ted

[mcchordsage]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried a few different varieties of spacing and indents without really liking any of them. Then it got to the point where so much material had been added that the clarity issue slipped away.

[mcchordsage]

New cover picture, 37th Infantry Division, new illustrations.