Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 May 2012
1st BATTALION,
48th INFANTRY REGIMENT
- Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company A, 48th Infantry
- Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York
- (48th Infantry assigned 31 July 1918 to the 20th Division; relieved 28 February 1919 from assignment to the 20th Division)
- Inactivated 14 October 1921 at Camp Travis, Texas
- Demobilized 31 July 1922
- Reconstituted 27 February 1942 in the Regular Army as Company A, 48th Armored Infantry, an element of the 7th Armored Division
- Activated 2 March 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company A, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 7th Armored Division
- Inactivated 11 October 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
- Activated 24 November 1950 at Camp Roberts, California
- Inactivated 15 November 1953 at Camp Roberts, California
- Redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Rifle Battalion, 48th Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 7th Armored Division, assigned to the 1st Armored Division, and activated at Fort Polk, Louisiana (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Inactivated 23 December 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Relieved 25 February 1958 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
- Activated 1 April 1958 in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry, and assigned to the 3d Armored Division
- Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division
- Headquarters transferred 15 April 1996 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- *Northern France
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
Decorations
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ST. VITH
- *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 St. Vith
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History
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