103RD ID COLOR PATCH

103RD ID COLOR PATCH

The 103rd Infantry Division (“Cactus Division“) was a unit of the United States Army that served in the U.S. Seventh Army of the 6th Army Group during World War II.   Active from 1921-1945.

It was variously assigned to the VI Corps, XV Corps, and XXI Corps. By war’s end it was part of VI Corps’ dash across Bavaria into the Alps, reaching Innsbruck, Austria, taking the Brenner Pass, and earning the honor of linking up with the U.S. Fifth Army coming north from Vipiteno, Italy, joining the Italian and Western European fronts on 4 May 1945.