321st Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 27 June 2006
321st Regiment Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 321st Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division
Organized 29 August 1917 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Demobilized 28 June 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 321st Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division (later redesignated as the 81st Infantry Division)
Organized in March 1922 with Headquarters at Raleigh, North Carolina
Ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Camp Rucker, Alabama
Inactivated 20 January 1946 in Japan
Activated 9 December 1946 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Raleigh, North Carolina
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Relieved 1 March 1952 from assignment to the 81st Infantry Division and assigned to the 108th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 30 April 1959 as the 321st Regiment, an element of the 108th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Columbia, South Carolina
Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 December 1971 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 16 November 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 19 October 2001 to consist of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)
321st Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Western Pacific (with arrowhead); Leyte
Decorations
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945