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Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 February 2012

188th ARMY BAND

  • Organized 13 August 1887 in the Dakota Territorial Militia at Valley City as the Band, 1st Dakota Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 2 November 1889 in the Organized Militia of North Dakota as the Band, 1st North Dakota Infantry (concurrently, Territory of Dakota reorganized as the states of North and South Dakota)
  • Location changed in 1891 to Lisbon
  • (Organized Militia of North Dakota redesignated 6 March 1891 as the North Dakota National Guard)
  • Mustered into Federal service 19 June 1916 at Lisbon; mustered out of Federal service 14 February 1917 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
  • Called into Federal service 15 July 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Redesignated 4 October 1917 as the Band Section, Headquarters Company, 164th Infantry and assigned to the 41st Division
  • Demobilized 28 February 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey, and relieved from assignment to the 41st Division
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 4 April 1922 in the North Dakota National Guard at Lisbon as the Band Section, 164th Infantry, and assigned to the 34th Division
  • Redesignated 1 May 1940 as the Band, 164th Infantry
  • Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Lisbon
  • Relieved from assignment 8 December 1941 to the 34th Division
  • Assigned 24 May 1942 to the Americal Division
  • Relieved from assignment 16 November 1943 to the Americal Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 10 January 1944 as the 294th Army Band
  • Redesignated 1 June 1944 as the 294th Army Ground Forces Band
  • Inactivated 31 May 1946 on Luzon
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 8 November 1946 in the North Dakota National Guard at Lisbon as the 294th Army Ground Forces Band
  • Redesignated 27 August 1947 as the 294th Army Band
  • Disbanded 1 April 1959 and remaining personnel transferred to the 188th Army Band (188th Army Band concurrently organized and Federally recognized at Fargo)
  • HOME STATION: Fargo

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Guadalcanal

DECORATIONS

None

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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