87th Infantry Division

The “Golden Acorn” Div. was reactivated at Camp McCain, Miss., Dec. 15, 1942, and trained here in 1943. The Div. distinguished itself in the Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe during the Battle of the Bulge, assault of the Sauer, Moselle and Rhine Rivers, capture of Coblenz, the cracking of the Siegfried Line and the final assault into Czechoslovakia. . This historical marker was erected in 1978 by Mississippi Department of Archives and History. It is Near Grenada in Grenada County Mississippi