26th Recon Troop- Bar Harbor

When I went to the National archives in College Park, MD a while back, I reviewed the official after action reports and lineage documents pertaining to the 26th Recon Troop. In them it declared that the Troop was a detached company of the 181st Infantry and thererfore was part of that regiments lineage. Today I saw where a veteran of World War II declared it was a newly formed unit made up of volunteers from Yankee Division. I will have to look into that.

The other thing I found out was that when Yankee Divison was given coast watching duty prior to going to Europe in 1944 it was assigned the east coast. The 26th Recon Troops area was Ellsworth, Maine and patrolled from Bar Harbor to Canada.

The Recon Troops as a whole have a different history. Even though they had tank platoons attached the doctrine was from out of Fort Riley not Fort Knox. Riley was still the home of the horse cavalry and was tasked with applying the skills of that to mechanized units designated as cavalry.