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380th Army Band

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 November 2009

380th Army Band Lineage

Constituted 2 August 1943 in the Army of the United States as the Band, 80th Infantry Division

Activated 12 August 1943 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 80th Infantry Division Band

Inactivated 4 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Redesignated 15 July 1946 as the 80th Airborne Division Band and allotted to the Organized Reserves

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

Redesignated 10 May 1952 as the 80th Infantry Division Band

Redesignated 12 February 1959 as the 80th Division Band

Activated 23 March 1959 at Fredericksburg, Virginia

Location changed 11 May 1959 to Fort Lee, Virginia

Consolidated 31 January 1968 with the Support Company, 80th Division (Training) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the Support Company and Band, 80th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1970 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Band, 80th Support Battalion, an element of the 80th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Band, 80th Support Battalion, an element of the 80th Division (Training)

(Location of band element changed in 1975 to Richmond, Virginia)

Band element withdrawn 16 November 1982 and redesignated as the 880th Army Band, an element of the 80th Division (Training) (Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 80th Support Battalion--hereafter separate lineage)

Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 1983 as the band element of Headquarters Company, 80th Division (Training)

Band element withdrawn 16 September 1988 from Headquarters Company, 80th Division (Training); concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 80th Division Band

(80th Division [Training] reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1994 as the 80th Division [Institutional Training])

Relieved 1 October 2008 from assignment to the 80th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2008 as the 380th Army Band

380th Army Band Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

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

 

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER


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