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Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2012

3d BATTALION,
69th ARMORED REGIMENT

  • Constituted 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as Company C, 69th Armored Regiment, an element of the 1st Armored Division
  • Activated 31 July 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
  • Inactivated 10 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
  • Activated 15 February 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky (69th Armored Regiment concurrently relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 6th Armored Division)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company C, 69th Tank Battalion
  • Inactivated 10 July 1945 in Germany (69th Tank Battalion concurrently relieved from assignment to the 6th Armored Division)
  • Redesignated 21 August 1950 as Company C, 69th Medium Tank Battalion, an element of the 6th Armored Division
  • Activated 5 September 1950 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Redesignated 14 January 1957 as Company C, 69th Tank Battalion
  • (69th Tank Battalion relieved 1 February 1957 from assignment to the 6th Armored Division)
  • Redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Medium Tank Battalion, 69th Armor, assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated in Hawaii (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Inactivated 1 July 1963 in Hawaii and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 15 August 1983 as the 3d Battalion, 69th Armor, assigned to the 3d Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
  • Inactivated 16 April 1986 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
  • Assigned 16 October 1987 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
  • Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
  • Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • *Normandy
  • *Northern France
  • *Rhineland
  • *Ardennes-Alsace
  • *Central Europe
  •   Eastern Mandates
  •   Western Pacific (with arrowhead)
  •   Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
  • Korean War
  • UN Defensive
  • UN Offensive
  • CCF Intervention
  • First UN Counteroffensive
  • CCF Spring Offensive
  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953
  • Southwest Asia
  • *Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • *Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  •    Iraq:
  • *Iraqi Sovereignty
  • (Additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE
  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  •   Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered SAIPAN AND TINIAN
  •   Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered OKINAWA
  •   Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON
  • *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2010
  •   Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
  • *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
  • *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2001

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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