Society of the First Infantry Division

Name: Society of the First Infantry Division
Address: Building 510, Fort Riley, KS, 66442, US
Telephone: (785) 579-6761
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07/22/2026

20 July 1943: First Infantry Division soldiers ride through Enna, Sicily, in a captured German vehicle, now boldly marked with a white U.S. star.

07/21/2026

July 20, 2019: Spc. Zachary Anderson, crew chief, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, prepares a UH-60 Blackhawk for static display at the Wings over Baltics Airshow in Jurmala, Latvia. (Photo by Sgt. Kyle Larsen)

07/20/2026

19 July, 1943: Motorcycle MP PFC Norman Ridge, Langhorne, Pa., taken in Barrafranca, Sicily. 1st Infantry Division.
Photographer: Wallace
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION (Signal Corps)

07/19/2026

On July 16, 1969 this 1st Infantry Division patch hitched a ride on the historic mission to land humans on the Moon. It was carried by Astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Command Module on that mission. The patch was originally stitched to the uniform coat of his father James L. Collins, who had served with the First Division A.E.F. in World War I. Before the war, he was an aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing and while serving in France, he commanded a battalion of the 7th Field Artillery, First Division. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and A Silver Star for his service in the A.E.F.

In September of 1919, it sailed back from Europe with the First Division, and paraded in New York City and Washington, DC, with the First Division later that month. In February 2010, Collins mailed it to the First Division Museum at Cantigny along with this hand-written note.

07/18/2026

July 1944: Soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division inspect a StuG IV assault gun, that belonged to the SS Das Reich Division, in a French town named Marigny, west of Saint-Lô.

07/14/2026

July 13, 1965: Troops of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team coming ashore at Vung Tau, Vietnam.

07/13/2026

July 12, 2017: Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin, commanding general, 1st Infantry Division, and Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph Cornelison, senior enlisted adviser for 1st Inf. Div., case their division colors during the transfer of authority ceremony for the Combined Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve in Baghdad, Iraq. The 1st Infantry Division transferred authority to the 1st Armored Division after a nine-month deployment in support of CJFLCC-OIR.

US Army Photo by Sgt. Von Marie Donato

07/12/2026

July 11-12, 1919: First Division Circus, Montabaur, Germany

07/11/2026

July 10, 2024: the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (1st CAB), cased their colors, while the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (1st ACB), uncased theirs during a Transfer of Authority ceremony in Powidz, Poland.
📸: U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Valesia Gaines

07/10/2026

Big Red One TBT, around 1996: Chad Ewing shares this newspaper photo of Sgt. Thomas Crawford, 977th MP Co. and is looking to reconnect with him.

The caption to the photo reads, "Sgt. Thomas Crawford, 977th MP Co., teases 8-month-old Nicole Spaulding while he talks to her mother Farida. Crawford was awarded an Army Commendation Medal for saving Nicole's life.

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Building 510
Fort Riley, KS
66442

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(785) 579-6761

Website

http://www.1stid.org/

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