1st Battalion
48th Infantry
Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 April 1997
1st Battalion
48th Infantry Lineage
Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company A, 48th Infantry
Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York
(48th Infantry assigned 31 July 1918 to the 20th Division; relieved 28 February 1919 from assignment to the 20th Division)
Inactivated 14 October 1921 at Camp Travis, Texas
Demobilized 31 July 1922
Reconstituted 27 February 1942 in the Regular Army as Company A, 48th Armored Infantry, an element of the 7th Armored Division
Activated 2 March 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company A, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 7th Armored Division
Inactivated 11 October 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
Activated 24 November 1950 at Camp Roberts, California
Inactivated 15 November 1953 at Camp Roberts, California
Redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Rifle Battalion, 48th Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 7th Armored Division, assigned to the 1st Armored Division, and activated at Fort Polk, Louisiana (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Inactivated 23 December 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana
Relieved 25 February 1958 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
Activated 1 April 1958 in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry, and assigned to the 3d Armored Division
Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division
Headquarters transferred 15 April 1996 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
1st Battalion
48th Infantry Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe
Decorations
* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ST. VITH
* Belgian Fourragere 1940
* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES
* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ST. VITH