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Lineage and Honors Information as of 21 September 2011

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2d Infantry Division Band

 

            Constituted 2 August 1943 in the Regular Army as the Band, 2d Infantry Division

            Activated 10 August 1943 at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin

            Redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 2d Infantry Division Band

            Consolidated 20 February 1963 with Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 2d Infantry Division Trains, and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Band, 2d Infantry Division Support Command

            Reorganized and redesignated 20 November 1967 as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 2d Infantry Division Support Command

            Band element withdrawn 30 June 1972 from Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 2d Infantry Division Support Command and assigned to the 2d Adjutant General Company

            Band element withdrawn 30 September 1988 from the 2d Adjutant General Company and redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division Band

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                       World War II
                                                       Normandy
                                                       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

 

DECORATIONS

            Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

            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, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE

            Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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