Structure
The division consisted of these units:
1941
- 5th Armored Brigade HHC
- 31st Armored Regiment (Light)
- 34th Armored Regiment (Light)
- 81st Armored Regiment (Medium)
- 65th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) (Armored)
- 58th Field Artillery Battalion (Armored)
- 85th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
- 46th Infantry Regiment (Armored)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Armored Division
- 22nd Engineer Battalion (Armored)
- 75th Medical Battalion (Armored)
- 145th Signal Company (Armored)
- 21st Ordnance Battalion (Armored)
- 19th Quartermaster Battalion (Armored)
1944–45
- 10th Tank Battalion
- 34th Tank Battalion
- 81st Tank Battalion
- 15th Armored Infantry Battalion
- 46th Armored Infantry Battalion
- 47th Armored Infantry Battalion
- HHB Division Artillery
- 47th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion, Mechanized
- 505th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Armored Division
- HHC, Combat Command A
- HHC, Combat Command B
- Headquarters, Reserve Command
- HHC, Division Trains
- 75th Medical Battalion, Armored
- 127th Armored Maintenance Battalion
- Military Police Platoon
- 22nd Armored Engineer Battalion
- 145th Armored Signal Battalion
- 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 2 August 1944 – 19 December 1944, 28 January 1945 – 9 May 1945)
- 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 29 August 1944 – 14 December 1944)
- 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 17 April 1945 – 24 April 1945)
- 387th AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion (attached 1 August 1944 – 25 March 1945, 28 March 1945 – 9 May 1945)
1944, 28 January 1945 – 9 May 1945)
- 202nd Field Artillery Battalion (attached 2 August 1944 – 25 August 1944)
The division's losses included 570 killed in action, 2,442 wounded in action, and 140 who died of wounds.
The division was inactivated on 11 October 1945, reactivated in 1950, and inactivated for the final time in 1956.
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