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Lineage and Honors Information as of 31 March 2015

325th Infantry Regiment

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 325th Infantry and assigned to the 82d Division
  • Organized 1 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
  • Demobilized 18-25 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 325th Infantry and assigned to the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division)
  • Organized in January 1922 with Headquarters at Albany, Georgia
  • Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as the 325th Glider Infantry
  • (3d Battalion consolidated 6 April 1945 with the 2d Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry [see ANNEX], and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as the 325th Infantry
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
  • Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as the 325th Airborne Infantry
  • Relieved 1 September 1957 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division and reorganized as the 325th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
  • Withdrawn 1 July 1983 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 325th Infantry Regiment
  • ANNEX
  • Constituted 23 July 1918 in the National Army as the 2d Battalion, 401st Infantry, an element of the 101st Division
  • Demobilized 30 November 1918
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 2d Battalion, 401st Infantry, an element of the 101st Division
  • Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Disbanded 15 August 1942; concurrently reconstituted in the Army of the United States as the 2d Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry, an element of the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Disbanded 1 March 1945 in France
  • Reconstituted 6 April 1945 in the Army of the United States as the 2d Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry; concurrently consolidated with the 3d Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry, an element of the 82d Airborne Division

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Sicily
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland (with arrowhead)
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Armed Forces Expeditions
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Panama (with arrowhead)
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • Kosovo
  • Kosovo Defense
  • War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation I
  • Iraq:
  • New Dawn
  • (Additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SALERNO
  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2003-2004
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE JAN-FEB 2005
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE MAY-SEP 2005
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered YUSIFIYAH, IRAQ 2006
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2007-2008
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2011
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1987-1988
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994-1996
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2010
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COTENTIN
  • French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
  • Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944
  • Netherlands Orange Lanyard
  • 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 in Belgium and Germany

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History


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