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77th Armor

Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 June 1998

77th Armor Lineage

Constituted 25 April 1941 in the Army of the United States as the 73d Tank Battalion

Redesignated 8 May 1941 as the 753d Tank Battalion

Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Reorganized and redesignated 9 September 1942 as the 753d Tank Battalion, Medium

Reorganized and redesignated 29 March 1944 as the 753d Tank Battalion

Inactivated 15 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Inactivated 15 October 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Redesignated 20 March 1949 as the 77th Heavy Tank Battalion, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, and activated in Japan

Redesignated 5 August 1950 as the 77th Tank Battalion

Relieved 10 October 1951 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division

Inactivated 10 November 1951 in Korea

Redesignated 24 January 1962 as the 77th Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Withdrawn 16 February 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

77th Armor Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive

Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I

Decorations

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL ITALY

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered VOSGES

French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered ITALY

French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951


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