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1st Battalion
9th Infantry
(Manchu)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 August 1996

1st Battalion
9th Infantry Lineage

Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company A, 9th Infantry

Organized 26 March 1855 at Fort Monroe, Virginia

Consolidated in June 1869 with Company A, 27th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 9th Infantry

(9th Infantry assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division])

Reorganized and redesignated 20 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 9th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 2d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Relieved 16 December 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division

Inactivated 16 March 1987 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

Assigned 16 April 1987 to the 7th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Ord, California

Relieved 16 August 1995 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 2d Battalion, 18th Infantry

Organized in October 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio

Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 27th Infantry

1st Battalion
9th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Civil War: * Murfreesborough; * Chickamauga; * Chattanooga; * Atlanta; * Kentucky 1862; * Mississippi 1862; * Tennessee 1863; * Georgia 1864

Indian Wars: Little Big Horn; * Washington 1856; Washington 1858; * Wyoming 1866; * Wyoming 1867

War with Spain: * Santiago

China Relief Expedition: * Tientsin; * Yang-tsun; * Peking

Philippine Insurrection: Malolos; San Isidro; Zapote River; Tarlac; Luzon 1899; Luzon 1900; Samar 1901

World War I: * Aisne; * Aisne-Marne; * St. Mihiel; * Meuse-Argonne; * Ile de France 1918; * Lorraine 1918

World War II: * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

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

Armed Forces Expeditions: * Panama

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BREST, FRANCE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SIEGFRIED LINE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON

* Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for HWACHON RESERVOIR

* Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM

* French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for CHATEAU THIERRY

* French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE

* French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE

* French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

* Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG

* 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 at ELSENBORN CREST

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA


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