Death of a Division: June 19th 2000 - July 3rd 2000

U.S. 5th Division Organization

• 1st Brigade
• 1-40 Armor
• 3-10 Infantry
• 3-11 Infantry
• 2-21 Field Artillery
• 2nd Brigade
• 3-70 Armor
• 3-77 Armor
• 3-143 Infantry
• 3-19 Field Artillery
• 256th Brigade
• 1-156 Armor
• 2-156 Infantry
• 1-141 Field Artillery
• 3-156 Infantry
• Recon Brigade
• 4-12 Cavalry (mechanized)

The United States 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) jumped off on its raid on June 19th from Chojnice and Człuchów in a converging drive on the Bydgoszcz and Toruń area. 

Contact was made with partisans of the 2nd Polish Free Legion in Tuchola, and they reported the road ahead clear. 

Guides were provided and on the 21st advanced elements of the division had reached Toruń, with follow-up forces closing up. Only scattered resistance from some local militia had been encountered. The division spent a week in the Toruń area distilling fuel in anticipation of the second bound. 

On June 29th it moved out south on the road to Włocławek, which the division’s recon battalion (4th squadron of the 12th Cavalry, mounted on horseback) had scouted as far south as Krośniewice. The division closed up on Włocławek by the evening of June 30 and advanced elements were in the strategic road junction of Krośniewice by July 1.