| 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) |
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| 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) |
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75 mm Pack Howitzer
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This site is dedicated to the men who served and fought in WW II. |
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This history of the 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) is located on 9 different web sites. This is the first one, the main "Home Page." At the end of this web site is a link to take you to the next site, which consist of alot more photographs taken by the men of the 601st. This site has many photographs and maps also, which are used to tell the history of the battalion. There is also a site at Military.com that I put together on the 601st. |
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Creator of these web sites, Dennis Cutter
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Links to the other 601st & 602nd web sites | ||||||||||
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Newer version of the 601st D.I.
This D.I. recently sold on eBay for $51.00 |
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This early version of the 10th Mountain Division patch sold recently on eBay for $332.50! Look at the prices of what other variations sold for on eBay. |
This version sold for $580.50!
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The 601st and 602d trained under the 10th in it's early infancy days. Before it became a established Division. This patch is what one of the first versions looked like. It sold on eBay for $115.00 !
Later version of the 10th Mountain patch
Stories from the 88th Division, which the 601st furnished artillery support. | ||
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The History of the"10th Light Division (Alpine)" | |
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After WWII the 601st Field Artillery became the 601st Missile Battalion stationed in Germany | |
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Constituted March 19th, 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)
Activated April 16, 1942 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Inactivated October 24th, 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
Redesignated 601st Field Artillery Missle Battalion (Corporal) and allotted to the Regular Army, January 24th, 1955
Activated Febuary 15th, 1955 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Inactivated June 25th, 1958 in Germany
Decorations: French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL ITALY
Coat of Arms: Gules, on a bend or between a lictor's axe of the like, the handle broken and the blade charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first, and a polar star of the second, a Corporal missile in flight sable charged with a mullet palewise gold, the propulsion stream gules.
Motto: Primus in scopo (First on target)
Scarlet and gold are the colors used for Artillery. The Corporal missile refers to the battalion's classification; the star, suggested by the Texas State flag, Fort Bliss,Texas, the place of activation after World War II. The polar star from the Flag of Alaska commemorates participation in the Aleutian Islands campaign while the fleur-de-lis for France and the broken lictor's axe for Italy symbolize service in Europe during World War II.
CAMP HALEIn 1942, Pando, Colorado was nothing more than a two-room train station situated in the picturesque Eagle Park Valley at an elevation of 9,500 feet. In the winter months it was rarely warmer than 40 degrees, and often 20 to 35 degrees below zero at 5 am. By November 1942, an army camp filled the valley surrounded by mountains. Given the name Camp Hale, after Brig. Gen. Irving Hale, construction on the camp began in April 1942 and was completed in November the same year. The camp, located about 20 miles west of Leadville, Colorado, was the first U.S. training post for mountain troops. The Mountain Training Center (MTC) was activated at Camp Carson, Colorado on September 2, 1942, but was moved to Camp Hale in November. An increase need for troops in the art of mountain warfare led to the formation of the 10th Mountain Division, a unit devoted to moving appropriate weapons over mountainous terrain in any kind of weather. |
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