'THE FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION HAILS ITS 100,000TH PRISONER OF WAR' Sgt. Mallory J. Yacopine, W. Aliquippa, Pa., and Sgt. Werner W. Kahl, Detroit, Mich., put out a welcome sign. Hartz Mountain area, Germany. 23 April 1945. Photo by Pvt. William Kluger. (SC 204908)

BELOW: An old soldier, Walter Bieder, visits the beautiful First Division Memorial in Washington, D.C.

BELOW: Images from Vietnam

LEFT: Members of the 1st Division during Operation DELWARE. Photographer PFC Kenneth L. Powell. (National Archives CC 48448)

CENTER: Medic from the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, searches the sky for a MEDEVAC helicopter,. June 1967. Photographer: PFC John Olson.  (National Archives, SC-640456)

RIGHT: 1st Division soldier entering a tunnel complex, Vietnam, 1965.

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