417th Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 2005
417th Regiment Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 417th Infantry and assigned to the 76th Division (later redesignated as the 76th Infantry Division)
Organized in March 1922 with Headquarters at New Haven, Connecticut
Ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Disbanded 31 August 1945 in Germany
Reconstituted 7 October 1946 in the Organized Reserves as the 417th Infantry and assigned to the 76th Infantry Division
Activated 17 December 1946 with Headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
(Location of Headquarters changed 11 September 1950 to New Haven, Connecticut; changed 25 January 1954 to Hartford, Connecticut; changed 15 July 1954 to West Hartford, Connecticut)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 417th Regiment, an element of the 76th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Auburn, Maine
Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 April 1971 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training)
Reorganized 16 September 1993 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 16 October - 16 November 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 17 October 2004 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training)
417th Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for ECHTERNACH