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Lineage and Honors Information as of 21 October 2010

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2d BATTALION, 46th INFANTRY REGIMENT
(THE PROFESSIONALS)

 

Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company B, 46th Infantry

Organized 4 June 1917 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

(46th Infantry assigned 5 July 1918 to the 9th Division; relieved 15 February 1919 from assignment to the 9th Division)

Inactivated 16 November 1921 at Camp Travis, Texas

Demobilized 31 July 1922

Reconstituted 28 August 1941 in the Regular Army as Company B, 46th Infantry (Armored), an element of the 5th Armored Division

Activated 1 October 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Company B, 46th Armored Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company B, 47th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 5th Armored Division

Inactivated 8 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts

Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas

Inactivated 1 February 1950 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas

Activated 1 September 1950 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas

Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas

(47th Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 15 February 1957 from assignment to the 5th Armored Division)

Redesignated 1 October 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 46th Infantry, assigned to the 3d Armored Division, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1962 as the 2d Battalion, 46th Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division, and assigned to the 1st Armored Division

Inactivated 13 September 1972 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division

Headquarters transferred 30 January 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 46th Infantry Regiment

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                              World War II
                                                            *Normandy
                                                            *Northern France
                                                            *Rhineland
                                                            *Ardennes-Alsace
                                                            *Central Europe


DECORATIONS

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HURTGEN FOREST

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MEUSE RIVER

*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999-2000

 

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

PETER D. CREAN
COL, LG
Director, Center of Military History


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