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2d Battalion
58th Infantry Regiment
(The Patriots)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 December 2006

2d Battalion
58th Infantry Regiment Lineage

Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company B, 58th Infantry

Organized 5 June 1917 at Gettysburg National Park, Pennsylvania

(58th Infantry assigned 19 November 1917 to the 4th Division)

Inactivated 21 June 1922 at Fort George Wright, Washington

Demobilized 31 July 1922

Reconstituted 8 April 1942 in the Regular Army as Company B, 58th Infantry

Activated 24 April 1942 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Reorganized and redesignated 26 January 1944 as Company B, 203d Infantry Battalion

Inactivated 2 March 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Consolidated 10 July 1951 with Company B, 58th Armored Infantry Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 8th Armored Division

(58th Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 23 July 1956 from assignment to the 8th Armored Division)

Activated 15 August 1956 in Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 58th Infantry, and assigned to the 2d Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Battalion inactivated 1 July 1963 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Armored Division

Redesignated 1 April 1975 as the 2d Battalion, 58th Infantry, assigned to the 2d Armored Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 31 May 1981 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 2d 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, 58th Infantry Regiment

ANNEX

Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company B, 49th Infantry

Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York

Inactivated 18 November 1921 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Demobilized 31 July 1922

Reconstituted 1 April 1942 in the Regular Army as Company B, 49th Armored Infantry, an element of the 8th Armored Division, and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company B, 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 8th Armored Division

Inactivated 11 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Consolidated 10 July 1951 with Company B, 203d Infantry Battalion, and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 8th Armored Division

2d Battalion
58th Infantry Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

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

World War II: Aleutian Islands; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

Decorations

None


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