DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

1st BATTALION, 33rd ARMOR

Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as Company A, 3d Armored Regiment, an element of the 3d Armored Division

Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company A, 33d Armored Regiment

Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany

Redesignated 7 July 1947 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 30 July 1948 as Company D, 33d Medium Tank Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1955 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 33d Armor, and remained assigned to the 3d Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Armor

Inactivated 16 February 1987 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division

Activated 16 April 1987 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Assigned 15 August 1988 to the 9th Infantry Division

Inactivated 28 September 1990 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division

Assigned 16 February 1991 to the 199th Infantry Brigade and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Relieved 16 July 1992 from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade

Inactivated 14 January 1994 at Fort Polk, Louisiana

Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

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

DECORATIONS

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HASTENRATH-SCHERPENSEEL

* French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered MONS

* Belgian Fourragere 1940

• * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM 1944

  * 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 in BELGIUM 1945

  * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action on the MEUSE RIVER