Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 July 2016
2d Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment
- Constituted 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as Company B, 70th Tank Battalion, and activated at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
- Inactivated 1 June 1946 in Germany
- Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 14 June 1948 as Company B, 70th Medium Tank Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1948 as Company B, 70th Heavy Tank Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1950 as Company B, 70th Tank Battalion
- (70th Tank Battalion assigned 10 November 1951 to the 1st Cavalry Division)
- Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division
- Redesignated 21 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 70th Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion assigned 1 February 1963 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated in Germany
- Inactivated 15 April 1970 at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas
- Activated 21 July 1977 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
- Inactivated 15 October 1987 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 December 1987 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany
- Relieved 17 January 1992 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Inactivated 15 December 1993 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the
3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Armored Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment
- Relieved 16 April 2007 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
- Inactivated 15 March 2008 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the
3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
- Assigned 16 October 2014 to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Algeria-French Morocco
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- (Campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COTENTIN PENINSULA
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HURTGEN FOREST
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for actions in Belgium
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered TAEGU
- Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History
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