Fred L. Walker
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Major General Fred Livingood Walker was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II and was awarded with the second highest military decorations in both wars, the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC). During World War I he commanded a battalion on the Western Front, fighting with distinction in the Second Battle of the Marne in July 1918. During World War II, Walker commanded the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division throughout its service in the Italian campaign, from September 1943 until June 1944.
Major General Fred L. Walker during World War II.
Lieutenant Colonel Fred L. Walker, Infantry Detachment Division Inspector. 3rd Division, Army of Occupation, Andernach on Rhine, Germany, pictured here on January 4, 1919.
36th Infantry Division (United States)
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The 36th Infantry Division ("Arrowhead") also known as the "Panther Division", the "Lone Star Division", "The Texas Army", and the "T-patchers", is an infantry division of the U.S. Army and part of the Texas Army National Guard. The 36th Infantry Division was organized during World War I (1914–1918) from units of the Texas National Guard and of the Oklahoma National Guard. As an all-Texas unit, the Arrowhead Division was called to service for World War II (1937–1945) on 25 November 1940, was deployed to the European Theater of Operations in April 1943, and returned to the Texas Army National Guard in December 1945.
Doughboys of the 131st Machine Gun Battalion, 36th Division, during target practice at Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas, 1918.
A U.S. Navy Landing Ship, Tank (LST-1) landing American Army troops possibly from the 36th Division on an Italian beach, via a causeway
G.I.'s of the 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, firing an 81-mm. mortar in support of the Rapido river crossing, January 1944.
Elements of the 36th Division come ashore on D-Day, during the invasion of southern France, 15 August 1944.