Headquarters and Headquarters Company
82d Airborne Division
(All American)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 4 October 1996
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
82d Airborne Division Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 82d Division
Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
Demobilized 27 May 1919 at Camp Mills, New York
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 82d Division
Organized 23 September 1921 at Columbia, South Carolina
Redesignated 13 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 82d Division
Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters, 82d Airborne Division
(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Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
82d Airborne Division Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; 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
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA
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
Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for NIJMEGEN 1944
Netherlands Orange Lanyard