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3d Battalion, 32d Armor ("Iron Dukes")

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Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as the Company C, 2d Armored Regiment an element of the 3d Armored Division.

Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.

Redesignated on 8 May 1941 as Company C, 32d Armored Regiment.

Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany.

Disbanded 7 July 1947.

Reconstituted 28 May 1948 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Company C, 61st Heavy Tank Battalion, an element of the 9th Infantry Division.

Activated 12 July 1948 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Redesignated 25 May 1954 as Company C, 61st Tank Battalion.

Inactivated 1 December 1957 at Fort Carson, Colorado; concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Medium Tank Battalion (Patton), 32d Armor, and relieved from assignment to 9th Infantry Division.

Activated 25 June 1958 at Fort Stewart, Georgia (organic elements constituted 10 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958).

Redesignated 1 September 1963 as 3d Battalion, 32d Armor; concurrently, transferred (less personnel and equipment) from Fort Stewart, Georgia, to Germany, assigned to the 3d Armored Division, and reorganized.

Inactivated 16 June 1986 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division, with all personnel and equipment being transferred to the 2d Battalion, 67th Armor.

Assigned 16 October 1986 to the 1st Cavalry Division and activated at Ft. Hood, TX , using personnel and equipment from the 2d Battalion, 33d Armor.

Inactivated 16 December 1992 at Ft. Hood TX and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division, with all personnel and equipment being transferred to the 1st Battalion (Armor), 12th Cavalry.

Honors

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SIEGFRIED LINE 

Meritorious Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRAQ, Department of the Army General Order 27 dated 27 December 1994

Belgian Fourragere 1940 (32d Armored Regiment cited Department of the Army General Order 43, 1950)

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for Action in BELGIUM

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for Action in the ARDENNES 

 

 
Lineage compiled by Mike Williard (2-3 FA, 1989-92). 

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