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94th Army Band

Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 December 2009

94th Army Band Lineage

Constituted 2 August 1943 in the Army of the United States as the Band, 76th Infantry Division

Activated 18 August 1943 at A. P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia

Redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 76th Infantry Division Band

Inactivated 15 November 1945 in Germany

Allotted 7 October 1946 to the Organized Reserves

Assigned 21 August 1947 to the 76th Infantry Division

Activated 4 September 1947 at Hartford, Connecticut

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Location changed 28 December 1949 to New York, New York; on 6 June 1950 to Hartford, Connecticut; on 17 January 1951 to Bridgeport, Connecticut; on 1 February 1953 to Waterbury, Connecticut

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 76th Division Band

Consolidated 31 January 1968 with the Support Company, 76th Division (Training) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the Support Company and Band, 76th Division (Training); concurrently location of band element changed to West Hartford, Connecticut

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1970 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Band, 76th Support Battalion, an element of the 76th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Band, 76th Support Battalion, an element of the 76th Division (Training)

Location changed 21 June 1971 to East Windsor, Connecticut

Band element withdrawn 16 November 1982 and redesignated as the 876th Army Band, an element of the 76th Division (Training) (Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 76th Support Battalion--hereafter separate lineage)

Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 1983 as the band element of Headquarters Company, 76th Division (Training)

Band element withdrawn 16 September 1988 from Headquarters Company, 76th Division (Training); concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 76th Division Band

Relieved 15 November 1996 from assignment to the 76th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1999 as the 94th Army Band

94th Army Band Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

None


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