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Lineage and Honors United States Army 5/46nd Infanty
(The Professionals) 5st
Battalion 5th
Battalion Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company E, 46th Infantry Organized 4 June 1917 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana (46th Infantry assigned 5 July 1918 to the 9th Division; relieved 15 February 1919 from assignment to the 9th Division) Inactivated 16 November 1921 at Camp Travis, Texas Demobilized 31 July 1922 Reconstituted 28 August 1941 in the Regular Army as Company E, 46th Infantry (Armored), an element of the 5th Armored Division Activated 1 October 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Company E, 46th Armored Infantry Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company B, 15th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 5th Armored Division Inactivated 8 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas
Activated 1 September 1950 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas (15th Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 15 February 1957 from assignment to the 5th Armored Division) Redesignated 1 July 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Battle Group, 46th Infantry Redesignated 2 October 1967 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Battalion, 46th Infantry, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Battalion assigned 31 March 1968 to the 198th Infantry Brigade Relieved 15 February 1969 from assignment to the 198th Infantry Brigade and assigned to the 23d Infantry Division Inactivated 22 May 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Headquarters transferred 1 October 2000 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky 5th
Battalion Campaign Participation Credit World War II: *Normandy; *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Vietnam: *Tet Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase IV; *Counteroffensive, Phase V; *Counteroffensive, Phase VI; *Tet 69/Counteroffensive; *Summer-Fall 1969; *Winter-Spring 1970; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HURTGEN FOREST *Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG *Republic
of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969-1970 |
