Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 August 2014
8th Infantry Regiment
(Fighting Eagles)
- Constituted 5 July 1838 in the Regular Army as the 8th Infantry
- Organized in July 1838 in New York, Vermont, and Michigan
- Consolidated in May 1869 with the 33d Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 8th Infantry
- Assigned 17 December 1917 to the 8th Division
- Relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 25 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina
- Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California
- Relieved 1 April 1957 from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
- Withdrawn 1 August 1984 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 8th Infantry Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 3d Battalion, 15th Infantry
- Organized by March 1864 at Fort Adams, Rhode Island
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as the 33d Infantry
- Consolidated in May 1869 with the 8th Infantry and consolidated unit designated as the 8th Infantry
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- Churubusco
- Molino del Rey
- Chapultepec
- Civil War
- Peninsula
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Wilderness
- Atlanta
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Texas 1861
- Indian Wars
- Seminoles
- Apaches
- New Mexico 1858
- New Mexico 1860
- Montana 1872
- Arizona 1876
- War with Spain
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Luzon 1901
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Normandy
- (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Governance
- National Resolution
- Iraqi Surge
- Iraqi Sovereignty
- New Dawn
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PLEIKU PROVINCE
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DAK TO DISTRICT
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE 2007-2009
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered WESTERN AND SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN 2011-2012
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010-2011
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History