1st Battalion, 63d Armor
Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 December 1999
1st Battalion, 63d Armor Lineage
Constituted 3 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion
Activated 15 August 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion, Medium
Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion
Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 14 September 1948 as Company A, 63d Heavy Tank Battalion, an element of the 1st Infantry Division, and allotted to the Regular Army
Activated 10 October 1948 in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1950 as Company A, 63d Tank Battalion
Inactivated15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Redesignated 25 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 63d Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion assigned 1 July 1963 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
Reorganized and redesignated 20 January 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 63d Armor
Inactivated 16 August 1987 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Activated 16 September 1987 at Fort Irwin, California
Assigned 16 October 1991 to the 177th Armored Brigade
Inactivated 15 October 1994 at Fort Irwin, California, and relieved from assignment to the 177th Armored Brigade
Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated in Germany
1st Battalion, 63d Armor Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Decorations
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1988
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1990
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996-1997
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy