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The 36th Division Archive
Photographs
Division Headquarters
The division headquarters consisted of the division's command staff, the headquarters of divisional artillery, and special troops like the military government section, MP Company, 736th Ordnance Company, 36th Signal Company, 36th Quartermaster Company, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, and the division band. Also in this section are photographs of the division sports teams.
Supporting Units
This section highlights the various units attached to the 36th ID in support of its operations. Units included are the 111th Medical Battalion, 111th Engineer Battalion, 443rd AAA Battalion, 753rd Tank Battalion, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and more.
Kaufering Concentration Camps
Around April 29-30, 1945, troops of the 36th Division were advancing into Germany near Landsberg when they began to overrun the Kaufering subcamps of Dachau. Division units came across various camps with their own unique stories, doing what they could for the survivors and witnessing the horrors they had endured. Tens of thousands of mostly Jewish and Eastern European civilians were murdered at the Kaufering Camps, the 36th finding the remnants of those left behind and very few survivors.
