Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 February 2012
1st BATTALION,
64th ARMORED REGIMENT
- Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as Company A, 78th Tank Battalion
- Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company A, 758th Tank Battalion
- Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 May 1945 as Company A, 758th Light Tank Battalion
- Inactivated 22 September 1945 in Italy
- Redesignated 23 May 1946 as Company A, 758th Tank Battalion
- Activated 14 June 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1948 as Company A, 758th Heavy Tank Battalion
- Redesignated 3 November 1949 as Company A, 64th Heavy Tank Battalion, an element of the 2d Armored Division
- (64th Heavy Tank Battalion relieved 13 August 1950 from assignment to the 2d Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 6 March 1951 as Company A, 64th Tank Battalion
- Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor, assigned to the 3d Infantry Division, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Inactivated 16 October 1987 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 November 1987 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
- Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- *North Apennines
- *Po Valley
- Korean War
- *CCF Intervention
- *First UN Counteroffensive
- *CCF Spring Offensive
- *UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- *Second Korean Winter
- *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- *Third Korean Winter
- *Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Sovereignty
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered KUMSONG, KOREA
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2007-2008
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR TO SEOUL
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
- *Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History