Talk:86th Infantry Division (United States)

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Chicago Blackhawks[edit]

If anyone could mention that the Chicago Blackhawks got their name from the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I, It would be greatly appreciated. - KingRaven (>$.$)> (talk) 06:24, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

86th Calvary Recon. Troop History _ of Movements Only[edit]

My father was SSgt Wilbert W. Dingman of the 86th Calvary Reconnaissance Troop. I Have in my possesion some of his Memorabilia and Papers. There is a 4 page 8X13 inch heavy stock mimeographed list titled "TROOP HISTORY" __ "OF MOVEMENTS ONLY". I have tried to follow this date by date list of towns and milages using Google Earth. This has been difficult due to several towns in Germany having the same names such as Roggendorf. I found Roggendorf near Mechernich about 30 miles SW of Cologne, then later I did a search for the Div. CP at Weiden, from a CMH document I found a Wieden at Aachen. Knowing this was wrong I added Cologne to the search along with Weiden. I found a Weiden as a suburb of Cologne. Then found Roggendorf as a Cologne suburb. One TOWN listed that I'm having a problem finding due to spelling is "Friedrchofen" dated as "27 Apr. 45" between "Pollenfeld" "traveled 39 miles" (to Friedrchofen) "1 officer SWA 1st Platoon, 1 S/Sgt SWA 2d Platoon." AND "Geisenfeldwinden" "traveled 15 miles." I'm also wondering if there is a way I can scan these pages and add them to the "history" of the 86th Infantry Divison? My86thFathersSon (talk) 18:49, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hello, Roggendorf and Weiden are in fact suburbs of Cologne. Correctly spelled Friedrichshofen is a western suburb, then separate tiny village, few miles west of Ingolstadt. Also Pollenfeld (north of Eichstätt) fits in. And for Geisenfeldwinden see Geisenfeld. --129.187.244.28 (talk) 08:58, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

86th ARCOM[edit]

I was in the reserves in the middle 80s and detailed to the 86th ARCOM which was the designation of this unit at that time. I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning. It still had a division flag and streamers, but, was serving as a coordinating function for units, rather then operating as a command unit.--Patbahn (talk) 15:56, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]