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September 2022: Troopers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division’s Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard prepare to par...
09/08/2026

September 2022: Troopers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division’s Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard prepare to participate in a Labor Day Parade in Chapman, Kansas. Chapman hosted its 113th Annual Labor Day Parade where the CGMCG led with the National, Kansas, U.S. Army, and 1st Inf. Div. colors. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alvin Conley, 19th Public Affairs Detachment)

Today is World Beard Day.Here is Pvt. Hilton E. Smith of the 1st Infantry Division, just back from the front after 12 ho...
09/06/2026

Today is World Beard Day.

Here is Pvt. Hilton E. Smith of the 1st Infantry Division, just back from the front after 12 hours of rest and some hot food during the Battle of the Bulge.

Big Red One veterans: lets see those beards you've grown since getting out. Share your photos in the comments.

September 1918: 1st Division, moving up through the woods in Mandres aux Tours, France
09/05/2026

September 1918: 1st Division, moving up through the woods in Mandres aux Tours, France

1st Infantry Division helped liberate Mons, Belgium, and fought in the surrounding pocket battle between September 2 and...
09/04/2026

1st Infantry Division helped liberate Mons, Belgium, and fought in the surrounding pocket battle between September 2 and 6, 1944. The entire division was cited.

📷: N**i motorized equipment reduced to scrap by incessant pounding of air and ground units on retreating German column is shown in the above photo after being shoved aside by bulldozers in the town of Gagnies-Chausser, Belgium.

Sept. 2, 2003: The 1st Brigade Combat Team began deploying its main body. Initially attached to the 82nd Airborne Divisi...
09/03/2026

Sept. 2, 2003: The 1st Brigade Combat Team began deploying its main body. Initially attached to the 82nd Airborne Division, the brigade occupied Area of Operations Topeka and conducted Transition of Authority with the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, on Sept. 26. On March 20, 2004, CJTF-7 attached 1st Brigade to the 1st Marine Division to continue its offensive operations in AO Topeka.

September, 2000, Grafenwoehr, Germany: More than a thousand U.S. Army soldiers form the 1st Infantry Division's Big Red ...
09/02/2026

September, 2000, Grafenwoehr, Germany: More than a thousand U.S. Army soldiers form the 1st Infantry Division's Big Red One patch at Grafenwoehr, where they are on a training rotation.

August 1942: The HMS Queen Mary, a luxury liner converted to troopship, carries the whole 1st Infantry Division across t...
09/01/2026

August 1942: The HMS Queen Mary, a luxury liner converted to troopship, carries the whole 1st Infantry Division across the Atlantic in one voyage.

August 1968: Operation TOAN THANG II
08/31/2026

August 1968: Operation TOAN THANG II

Example of a World War I-era 1st Division shoulder patch. (McCormick Research Center Collection)
08/30/2026

Example of a World War I-era 1st Division shoulder patch. (McCormick Research Center Collection)

South Vietnam, August, 1967: Deep in thought, a soldier pauses for a smoke during a 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, 1st In...
08/29/2026

South Vietnam, August, 1967: Deep in thought, a soldier pauses for a smoke during a 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division sweep through a Communist stronghold seven miles southeast of Lai Khe. Photo Credit Gerard Forken Stars and Stripes

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