3d Battalion
505th Infantry
(Panthers)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 July 1996
3d Battalion
505th Infantry Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company C, 505th Parachute Infantry
Activated 6 July 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia
(505th Parachute Infantry assigned 10 February 1943 to the 82d Airborne Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Company C, 505th Airborne Infantry
Allotted 15 November 1948 to the Regular Army
Inactivated 1 September 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Airborne Battle Group, 505th Infantry
Redesignated 3 July 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, 505th Infantry (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Assigned 15 July 1968 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Inactivated 15 December 1969 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division
Assigned 3 October 1986 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
3d Battalion
505th Infantry Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: * Sicily (with arrowhead); * Naples-Foggia; * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Rhineland (with arrowhead); * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe
Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Company A additionally entitled to:
Armed Forces Expeditions: Panama (with arrowhead)
Decorations
* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for NIJMEGEN
* Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA
* 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