During its WWII service, the 40th Infantry Division or its members were awarded 3 Distinguished Unit Citations, 1 Medal of Honor, 12 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Distinguished Service Medal, 245 Silver Stars, 21 Legions of Merit, 30 Soldier's Medals, 1036 Bronze Star Medals and 57 Army Medals.
Adam Rapp | Eisentraut's brush-furred rat | Dieterlen's brush-furred mouse | Basil Brush | Jean Rapp | Brush Traction | Brush Prairie, Washington | Brush | Vic Rapp | Tom Rapp | The Fuller Brush Man | The Fuller Brush Girl | Stephen Rapp | George Jarvis Brush | Earl Rapp | Charles F. Brush High School | Charles F. Brush | Brush Shiels | Brush Electrical Machines | Brush (electric) | Brush Development Company | Brush Creek Township | brush | ''Wenn der Rapp bleht in Piddaschwald'', a poem in the dialect of Peterswald-Löffelscheid | Vern Rapp | Stan Rapp | scrub brush | Rapp Motorenwerke | Rapp and Rapp | Ohio Brush Creek |
The planners chose to seize the western portion, including northwestern Negros and Panay island, during Operation VICTOR I. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, the Eighth Army commander, appointed the 40th Infantry Division, a California National Guard formation and veterans of the recent Battle of Luzon, under Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush, with the 503rd Airborne Regimental Combat Team in reserve.