2d Battalion
26th Infantry Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 May 2007
2d Battalion
26th Infantry Regiment Lineage
Organized 28 December 1900 in the Regular Army at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, as Company B, 1st Provisional Battalion of Infantry
Consolidated 7 February 1901 with Company B, 26th Infantry (constituted 2 February 1901 in the Regular Army), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 26th Infantry
(26th Infantry assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division])
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 26th Infantry
Assigned 1 February 1963 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Inactivated 13 January 1964 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Redesignated 3 April 1987 as the 2d Battalion, 26th Infantry; Headquarters concurrently transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Dix, New Jersey
Inactivated 18 July 1990 at Fort Dix, New Jersey; Headquarters concurrently withdrawn from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
Battalion redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment
Assigned 16 April 2007 to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas
2d Battalion
26th Infantry Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Philippine Insurrection: * Streamer without inscription
World War I: *Montdidier-Noyon; *Aisne-Marne; *St Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1917; *Lorraine 1918; *Picardy 1918
World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STOLBERG
*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 with Palm, World War II for KASSERINE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY
*French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy