82d Signal Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 March 1995
82d Signal Battalion Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Enlisted Reserve Corps as a Signal Corps battalion
Organized 19 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia, as the 13th Reserve Field Signal Battalion
Called into active military service 5 October 1917; concurrently redesignated as the 307th Field Signal Battalion and assigned to the 82d Division
Demobilized 22 May 1919 at Camp Morrison, Virginia
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 82d Signal Company and assigned to the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division)
Organized in February 1922 at Macon, Georgia
Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as the 82d Airborne Signal Company
(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Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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 1 September 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 82d Signal Battalion (organic elements constituted 19 July 1957 and activated 1 September 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina)
82d Signal Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Rhineland (with arrowhead); Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Grenada; Panama
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE
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, World War II, 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 in BELGIUM AND GERMANY
Netherlands Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for NIJMEGEN 1944
Netherlands Orange Lanyard