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505th Infantry
(Panthers)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 July 1996

505th Infantry Lineage

Constituted 24 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 505th Parachute Infantry

Activated 6 July 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Assigned 10 February 1943 to the 82d Airborne Division

Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as the 505th Airborne Infantry

Allotted 15 November 1948 to the Regular Army

Relieved 1 September 1957 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 505th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Withdrawn 3 October 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

505th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Normandy (with arrowhead); Rhineland (with arrowhead); Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam: Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer/Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970

Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Grenada

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for NIJMEGEN

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA

Army Superior Unit Award for 1989-1990

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for STE. MERE EGLISE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COTENTIN

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Fourragere

Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for 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


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