A week prior to this year’s celebration, Task Force Talon’s officers and NCOs conducted a staff ride following the footsteps of 77th Infantry Division in their endeavor to secure the island ...

The regiment’s 2nd Battalion was also present, along with a company from the 307th Infantry Regiment. But as senior officer, Whittlesey took charge. The regiments were part of the 77th Division.

The bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa—at least to the 77th Infantry Division—was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist.

Private First Class Ralph Kollberg, a combat veteran of the U.S. Army’s 77th Infantry Division, poses with his M1919A6 machine gun on Okinawa, May 14, 1945. Despite the gun’s 32-lb., ...

World War I, known as the Great War, was won 104 years ago by the combined forces of the U.S., France and Great Britain through an intense and bloody series of assaults on entrenched German troops ...

Skip to content viewer section. 77th Division Association, Ours to Hold It High: The History of the 77th Infantry Division in World War II (Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal Press, 1947), p. 560. 2.