Interwar period
The regiment arrived at the port of New York on 20 August 1919 on the troopship USS Matsonia and was transferred the same day to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where emergency period personnel were discharged from the service. It was transferred on 23 August 1919 to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and was transferred on 16 September 1921 to Camp Lewis, Washington. The regiment, less the 1st Battalion, was transferred on 6 June 1922 to Fort Douglas, Utah. Concurrently, the 1st Battalion was transferred to Fort Logan, Colorado. The 1st Battalion was transferred in June 1927 to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In April 1933, the regiment assumed command and control of the Fort Douglas Civilian Conservation Corps District. The 1st Battalion was inactivated on 1 October 1933 at Fort Sill, with the personnel and equipment transferred to the 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment. The 1st Battalion was reactivated on 1 May 1939 at Fort Sill. The regiment was relieved from the 3rd Division on 12 October 1939 and assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division, being transferred on 9 November 1939 to Camp Bullis, Texas, and to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on 24 February 1941. [2]
World War II
The 38th Regiment would continue to serve as part of the 2nd Infantry Division. Leaving Fort Houston in October 1942, the Regiment would spend much of the early years of the war operating out of Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. In September 1943 the division as a whole was sent to Camp Shanks as part of the New York Port of Embarkation where the 38th Regiment would ship out to Belfast, Northern Ireland in October 1943. Eventually after transferring to Wales, on June 7th, 1944 the 38th, along with most of the 2nd Infantry Division landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day +1. They would got into heavy action near the village of Trévières on the 10th of June. The 38th would see heavy action throughout the Normandy Campaign, most notably at Hill 192 to the Northeast of the City of Saint-Lo. Eventually by late August 1944, the regiment was the center force of the 2nd Infantry Division’s drive on the Fortress city of Brest in Brittany with heavy street fighting encountered until the city’s fall in early September 1944. After a period of rest, the regiment was transferred to the Ardennes region of Belgium in October 1944, where limited operations would be encounter here east of the town of St.Vith against the fortified positions of the Siegfried Line, most notably in The Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads. On December 16th, 1944 much of the 38th Regiment was attacked as part of the opening phase of the Battle of the Bulge, thanks to their efforts in holding the twin villages of Krinkelt and Rocherath, they would allow much of the 2nd and 99th Infantry Divisions to fall back to more defensible positions on the strategic high ground of the Elsenborn Ridge, which they would also hold for most of December 1944 into January 1945. In February 1945, the regiment would take part in the push into the Rhineland region of Germany, eventually crossing the Rhine River via the Remagen Bridgehead on March 10th, 1945. Racing across central Germany in April 1945, by the 18th, after a series of intense street engagements, the 38th would help secure the vital city of Leipzig, Germany. By the 24th, the regiment had reached the western bank of the Mulde River, not to long after that contact would be made with the Soviets on the eastern bank. Eventually after being relieved from its duties on the Mulde River, the regiment and entire 2nd Division was moved town to the Germany town of Waldmünchen along the Czechoslovak-German border, where the 38th Regiment would take part in the last major offensive operation of the U.S. Army in Europe in WWII with a major push towards the Czech city of Plzeň, the 38th being in the 2nd Division’s lead. The attack began on the 4th of May 1945, and by May 8th, with the assistance of the 16th Armored Division and 97th Infantry Division much of the city of Pilsen had been cleared by the 38th when the official word of Nazi Germany’s surrender was announced. The Regiment would remain on Occupation Duty around Pilsen until July 1945, when they were shipped back to the U.S. for training for the Invasion of Japan but lucky the war in the Pacific ended before any major training could begin.
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