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Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 April 2013

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS BATTALION
42d INFANTRY DIVISION
(RAINBOW)

  • Constituted 14 August 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 42d Division
  • Organized 5 September 1917 at Camp Mills, New York
  • Demobilized 9 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
  • Reconstituted 5 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 42d Infantry Division
  • Activated 14 July 1943 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma
  • Inactivated 29 June 1946 in Austria
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 31 March 1947 in the New York National Guard at New York
  • Ordered into active Federal service 24 March 1970 at New York; released from active Federal service 30 March 1970 and reverted to state control
  • Location changed 1 December 1989 to Troy; Headquarters Company concurrently organized from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Support Group (See ANNEX)
  • Ordered into active Federal service 24 May 2004 at Troy; released from active Federal service 19 December 2005 and reverted to state control
  • Consolidated 1 September 2006 with Detachment 1, 42d Armored Division Artillery (organized and Federally recognized 25 January 2002 at Troy), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters, 42d Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 1 September 2011 in the New York and New Jersey Army National Guard as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 42d Infantry Division
  • ANNEX
  • Organized 21 June 1916 in the New York National Guard at Troy as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 1 July 1916 at Troy; mustered out of Federal service 23 October 1916 at Troy
  • Mustered into Federal service 31 March 1917 at Troy; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1917 as Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry, an element of the 27th Division
  • Demobilized 1 April 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 15 January 1920 in the New York National Guard at Troy as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry
  • Redesignated 1 June 1921 as Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry
  • (105th Infantry assigned 17 November 1921 to the 27th Division [later redesignated as the 27th Infantry Division])
  • Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Troy
  • Inactivated 31 December 1945 at Fort Lawton, Washington
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 4 March 1947 at Troy
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combat Command A, 27th Armored Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 27th Armored Division
  • Converted and redesignated 1 February 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th General Support Group, and relieved from assignment to the 27th Armored Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Support Group

HOME STATION: Troy (less detachments at Buffalo, Staten Island, and Lawrenceville, New Jersey)

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War I
  • Champagne-Marne
  • Aisne-Marne
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Champagne 1918
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Governance

Headquarters and Support Company (Troy) additionally entitled to:

  • World War I
  • Somme Offensive
  • Ypres-Lys
  • Flanders 1918
  • World War II
  • Central Pacific
  • Western Pacific
  • Ryukyus

DECORATIONS

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005
  • Headquarters and Support Company (Troy) entitled to:
  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SAIPAN

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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