Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 April 2018
2d Battalion, 54th Infantry Regiment
- Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company B, 54th Infantry
- Organized 16 June 1917 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia
- (54th Infantry assigned 16 November 1917 to the 6th Division)
- Inactivated 24 October 1922 at Fort Wayne, Michigan
- (54th Infantry relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved 1 October 1940 from assignment to the 7th Division)
- Redesignated 14 June 1942 as Company B, 54th Armored Infantry
- Activated 15 July 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 10th Armored Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company B, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 10th Armored Division
- Inactivated 23 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
- Redesignated 14 September 1950 as Company B, 54th Infantry, an element of the 71st Infantry Division
- Redesignated 25 February 1953 as Company B, 561st Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 10th Armored Division
- (561st Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 1 April 1957 from assignment to the 10th Armored Division)
- Redesignated 29 August 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 54th Infantry (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 23 September 1957 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 54th Infantry, and assigned to the 4th Armored Division
- Inactivated 10 May 1971 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division
- Headquarters transferred 28 August 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 54th Infantry Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Meuse-Argonne
- Alsace 1918
- World War II
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History