Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 August 2016
1st Battalion, 63d Armored Regiment
- Constituted 3 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion
- Activated 15 August 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion, Medium
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as Company A, 745th Tank Battalion
- Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 14 September 1948 as Company A, 63d Heavy Tank Battalion, an element of the 1st Infantry Division, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 10 October 1948 in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1950 as Company A, 63d Tank Battalion
- Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
- Redesignated 25 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 63d Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion assigned 1 July 1963 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 January 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 63d Armor
- Inactivated 16 August 1987 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
- Activated 16 September 1987 at Fort Irwin, California
- Assigned 16 October 1991 to the 177th Armored Brigade
- Inactivated 15 October 1994 at Fort Irwin, California, and relieved from assignment to the 177th Armored Brigade
- Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated in Germany
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 63d Armored Regiment
- Inactivated 15 July 2006 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 March 2008 to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Surge
- Iraqi Sovereignty
- New Dawn
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Company B additionally entitled to:
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Governance
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2010-2011
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1988
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1990
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996-1997
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History