Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 June 2012
HEADQUARTERS
34th INFANTRY DIVISION
(RED BULL)
- Constituted 18 July 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 34th Division (to be organized with troops from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota)
- Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Cody, New Mexico
- Demobilized 18 February 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 July 1924 at Council Bluffs, Iowa (Headquarters Detachment, 34th Infantry Division, organized and Federally recognized 12 May 1927 at Council Bluffs, Iowa)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 34th Division, inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1942 as Headquarters, 34th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
- Reorganized and Federally recognized in part 19 November 1946 at Des Moines, Iowa, and in part 21 November 1946 at Omaha, Nebraska (Nebraska part - hereafter separate lineage)
- Headquarters (Iowa part), 34th Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Headquarters, 34th Command Headquarters, Divisional
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1968 as Headquarters, 34th Brigade, 47th Infantry Division; concurrently, location changed to Boone
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 February 1991 in the Minnesota Army National Guard as Headquarters, 34th Infantry Division, and location changed to St. Paul (Headquarters Company concurrently organized and Federally recognized at St. Paul)
- Location of Headquarters changed 1 April 1994 to Rosemont
- Ordered into active Federal service 19 July 2003 at Rosemont; released from active Federal service 13 April 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2009 at Rosemont; released from active Federal service 16 March 2010 and reverted to state control
- HOME STATION: Rosemont (less detachment at Boone, Iowa)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War I
- Streamer without Inscription
- World War II
- Tunisia
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Sovereignty
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered BELVEDERE
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History