General Order 114

ARDENNES. – 1. Announcement is made of units awarded battle participation credit under the provisions of paragraph 21b(2), AR 260-10, 25 October 1944, in the Ardennes Campaign.

a. Combat Zone. – The area forward of the line: Euskirchen – Eupen (inclusive) – Liege (exclusive), east bank of Meuse River to its intersection with the Franco-Belgian border, thence south and east along this border and the southern border of Luxembourg.

Note. – Battle participation credit for the campaign Rhineland will not be accorded during this period for operations in the area defined above.

2. When entering individual credit on officer’s qualification cards (WD AGO Forms 66-1 and 66-2) or in the service record of enlisted personnel (WD AGO Form 24), this general orders may be cited as authority for such entries for personnel who were present for duty as a member of or attached to a unit listed at some time during the limiting dates of the Ardennes Campaign.

The document goes on to list in numerical order approximately 2000 individual units entitled to the Ardennes credit. The individual units would have been directly assigned to or attached to the following major organizations:

2 US Armies (First US Army, First Allied Airborne, and Third US Army)

6 Corps ( III Corps, V Corps, VII Corps, VIII Corps, XII Corps, XVIII Airborne Corps)

33 Divisions (20 Infantry Divisions, 3 Airborne Divisions and 10 Armored Divisions

(1st InfD, 2nd InfD, 4th InfD, 5th InfD, 9th InfD, 26th InfD, 28th InfD, 30th InfD, 35th InfD, 75th InfD, 76th InfD, 78th InfD, 80th InfD, 83rd InfD, 84th InfD, 87th InfD, 90th InfD, 94th InfD, 99th InfD, 106th InfD)

(2nd ArmdD, 3rd ArmdD, 4th ArmdD, 5th ArmdD, 6th ArmdD 7th ArmdD 8th ArmdD, 9th ArmdD, 10th ArmdD, 11th ArmdD)

2 Air Forces (Eighth Air Force, Ninth Air Force)

UNITS ENTITLED TO BATTLE CREDITS