NAME:
Fifty-First Infantry Division / 51st Division
NICKNAME:
"The Rattlesnakes"
BATTLE HONORS:
None reported.
ACTIVATED:
Setp 11, 1946 [National Guard date]
DEACTIVATED:
1963 [National Guard date]
HISTORY:
In the post World War II restructuring of the National Guard a number of new divisions were organized. Among these was the 51st Infantry Division, composed of Guardsmen from Florida and South Carolina.
The 51st Infantry Division never served on active Federal duty and was inactivated in 1963.
Original Organization Date: 11 September 1946 with Headquarters at Tampa, Florida.
Divisional history from:
http://www.ngef.org/tier.asp?bid=128