The document provides a history of the 42nd Infantry Division from World War I through its deployment to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2005. It details the Division's operations against insurgents in Iraq and its efforts to train Iraqi security forces, complete reconstruction projects, and facilitate the transition of control to Iraqi authorities. The Division helped set conditions for democratic elections in Iraq before departing in 2005.

1. 42 nd Infantry Division History Operation Iraqi Freedom Unclassified September 25, 2007

5. World War I

11. One of 18 Combat Divisions

13. 9-11 Response and Recovery at Ground Zero

14. 9-11: The Guard Responds

15. 9-11: The Guard Responds

16. The Global War on Terror: Homeland Security

19. Liberty Across the U.S. NY MT ID OR CA TX OK KS MN WI MO MS TN KY NC FL GA PA DE NJ RI MA VT 29 States and American Samoa Unclassified IL OH AZ IN CO

21. Area of Operations Multinational Division North Central Provinces As-Sulaymaniyah Kirkuk Diyala Salah Ad Din Major Cities Kirkuk Sulaymaniyah Bayji Tikrit Baqubah Samarra Balad

23. GABE WARHORSE SPEICHER REMAGEN DANGER WARRIOR KMTB-CALDWELL COBRA NORMANDY ANACONDA PALIWODA BRASSFIELD-MORA McKENZIE GAINS MILLS McHENRY SUMMERALL BERNSTEIN WILSON O’RYAN 1 MEF TF FREEDOM MND CS 2 MEF 3 ID TF LIBERTY FOOTPRINT 3 BDE/4 IA DIV 1BCT 3BCT 278RCT 116BCT

24. FOB Danger, Tikrit Iraq

26. Operation Liberty Torch

27. Operation Liberty Torch Neutralizing the Insurgency

29. Operation Liberty Torch

30. Operation Liberty Torch Developing Competent Iraqi Forces

31. Operation Liberty Torch

33. Partners in Reconstruction

34. Operation Liberty Torch

35. Operation Liberty Torch Removing weapons and munitions

36. Base Closures Reducing the Coalition Force footprint

38. Operation Saratoga Keeping pressure on the insurgency

39. Operation Saratoga

40. Operation Delaware The Constitutional Referendum vote

41. Operation Delaware

42. Operation Delaware

45. The Golden Mosque

50. Operation Liberty Torch “ Under a marker in Arlington National Cemetery lies a young man, Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small-town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the Western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy fire. We're told that on his body was found a diary. Under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: -President Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address, 1984 “‘ America must win this war. Therefore, I will work; I will save; I will sacrifice; I will endure; I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.’"

52. Rainbow, Never Forget!