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9th Infantry
(Manchu)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 August 1996

9th Infantry Lineage

Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as the 9th Infantry

Organized 26 March 1855 at Fort Monroe, Virginia

Consolidated in June 1869 with the 27th Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 9th Infantry

Assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division)

Relieved 20 June 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Withdrawn 29 April 1983 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 18th Infantry

Organized in October 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio

Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as the 27th Infantry

9th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Civil War: Murfreesborough; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Atlanta; Kentucky 1862; Mississippi 1862; Tennessee 1863; Georgia 1864

Indian Wars: Little Big Horn; Washington 1856; Washington 1858; Wyoming 1866; Wyoming 1867

War with Spain: Santiago

China Relief Expedition: Tientsin; Yang-tsun; Peking

Philippine Insurrection: Malolos; San Isidro; Zapote River; Tarlac; Luzon 1899; Luzon 1900; Luzon 1901

World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918

World War II: 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; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

Vietnam: Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; 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

Armed Forces Expeditions: Panama

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BREST, FRANCE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SIEGFRIED LINE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON

Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for HWACHON RESERVOIR

Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for CHATEAU THIERRY

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE

French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG

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 ELSENBORN CREST

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA


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