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320th Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 2005

320th Regiment Lineage

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 320th Infantry and assigned to the 80th Division

Organized August - September 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia

Demobilized 7 June 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 320th Infantry and assigned to the 80th Division

Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Washington, D.C.

Relieved 12 February 1942 from assignment to the 80th Division

Withdrawn 2 April 1943 from the Organized Reserves and consolidated with the 320th Infantry (constituted 19 December 1942 in the Army of the United States and assigned to the 35th Infantry Division; activated 26 January 1943 at San Luis Obispo, California)

Inactivated 21 November 1945 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division

Allotted 3 May 1954 to the Regular Army

Withdrawn 12 February 1959 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve; concurrently redesignated as the 320th Regiment

Activated 6 March 1959 as an element of the 80th Division (Training) with Headquarters at Richmond, Virginia

Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Training)

1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions inactivated 31 August 1973 and relieved from assignment to the 80th Division (Training)

Regiment reorganized 17 November 1982 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 80th Division (Training)

Reorganized 16 October 1984 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Training)

Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)

320th Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Somme Offensive; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918; Picardy 1918

World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

1st Battalion entitled to:

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MORTAIN

French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II, for MORTAIN


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