The 4th Division was reactivated on 1 June 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia, under the command of Major General Walter Prosser. Third Army command post exercise at Camp Bullis, Texas, or for the August 1938 maneuvers in the De Soto National Forest in Mississippi. The division headquarters was occasionally reassembled, such as for the September 1936 U.S. The division headquarters, as well as most of the other inactive units of the division, were authorized to be staffed by Organized Reserve personnel and designated as Regular Army Inactive units. On 21 September 1921, the 4th Division was inactivated due to funding cuts, but was represented in the Regular Army by its even-numbered infantry brigade (the 8th) and select supporting elements. After that date, it was stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington. The 4th Division was stationed at Camp Dodge, Iowa, until January 1920. In July the division returned to France and the last detachment sailed for the United States on 31 July 1919. The division went north to Ahrweiler, Germany, in the Rheinland-Pfalz area. In April 1919 the division moved to a new occupation area further north on the Rhine. The division established training for the men as well as sports and educational activities. The 4th marched into Germany, covering 330 miles in 15 days where it was widely dispersed over an area with Bad Bertrich as Division headquarters. American troops were to relocate to the center section of this previously German-occupied area all the way to the Koblenz bridgehead on the Rhine. Under the terms of the Armistice, Germany was to evacuate all territory west of the Rhine. All along the front, the American forces pressed forward and closed the St. The 4th Division attack began on 14 September with the 8th Brigade capturing the town of Manheulles. On 12 September, the first patrols were sent forward by the 59th. The 59th Infantry Regiment moved into an area previously occupied by the French, deploying along a nine kilometer front. The plan was for V Corps to push generally southeast and to meet IV Corps who was pushing northwest, thereby trapping the Germans in the St. The 4th Division, assigned to V Corps, was on the western face of the salient. One of the first missions assigned to the AEF was the reduction of the Saint-Mihiel salient. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front, had gotten the French and British to agree that the AEF would fight under its own organizational elements. 19th, 21st, 28th, and 33rd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitalsįor the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, the division moved into an area south of Verdun as part of the First United States Army.4th Train Headquarters and Military Police.The division was organized as part of the United States buildup following the Declaration of War on 6 April 1917 and the entry of the United States into the war on the side of the British and French. The ivy leaf came from the Roman numerals for four (IV) and signified their motto "Steadfast and Loyal". It was here they adopted their distinctive insignia, the four ivy leaves.
The 4th Division was organized at Camp Greene, North Carolina on 10 December 1917 under the command of Maj. The second nickname, "Iron Horse", has been adopted to underscore the speed and power of the division and its soldiers. Ivy leaves symbolize tenacity and fidelity which is the basis of the division's motto: "Steadfast and Loyal". The 4th Infantry Division's official nickname, "Ivy", is a play on words of the Roman numeral IV or 4. It is composed of a division headquarters battalion, three brigade combat teams (two Stryker and one armor), a combat aviation brigade, a division sustainment brigade, and a division artillery. The 4th Infantry Division is a division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado.
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