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Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2011

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS
BATTALION
2d INFANTRY DIVISION
(INDIANHEAD)

 

          Constituted 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 2d Division

          Organized 26 October 1917 in France

          Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 2d Infantry Division

          Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division

          Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2005 as Headquarters and Tactical Command Posts, 2d Infantry Division

          Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 2d Infantry Division

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                          World War I
                                                          Aisne
                                                          Aisne-Marne
                                                          St. Mihiel
                                                          Meuse-Argonne
                                                          Ile de France 1918
                                                          Lorraine 1918

                                                          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

          French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE

          French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE

          French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

          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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