William Ruthven Smith
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Major General William Ruthven Smith was a career United States Army officer who commanded the 36th Division during its deployment in France during the final months of World War I. He later became Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
William Ruthven Smith
Portrait of Major General William Ruthven Smith.
The commander of the 36th Division, Major General William R. Smith (left), together with his two infantry brigade commanders, Brigadier General John A. Hulen, commanding the 71st Brigade, and Brigadier General Pegram Whitworth, commanding the 72nd Brigade, pictured here at Lignieres, Yonne, France, December 8, 1918.
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.