329th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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329th Infantry Regiment
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Coat of arms
Active1917-present
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
AllegianceAllied
BranchU.S. Army Reserve
TypeInfantry
SizeRegiment
Nickname(s)Thunderbolt
Patron83rd Infantry Division
Motto(s)"Nous Gardons" (We Guard)
ColorsBlack and Yellow
Mascot(s)Willie
Engagements World War I
World War II
Insignia
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The 329th Infantry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. During World War I and World War II. It was part of the 83rd Infantry Division.

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History

World War I

The 329th Infantry was constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army and assigned to the 83rd Division. It was organized on 30 August 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.

Interwar period

The 329th Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 1 February 1919 on the troopship SS Minnekahda and was demobilized on 15 February 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Pursuant to the National Defense Act of 1920, the regiment was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921, assigned to the 83rd Division, and allotted to the Fifth Corps Area. It was initiated (activated) on 21 December 1921 with the regimental headquarters at Dayton, Ohio. Subordinate battalion headquarters were concurrently organized as follows: 1st Battalion at Hamilton, Ohio; 2nd Battalion at Columbus, Ohio; and the 3rd Battalion at Bellefontaine, Ohio. The regimental band was organized on 8 December 1923 at Dayton, and was inactivated on 3 October 1936. The regiment typically conducted Inactive Training Period meetings at the Federal Building in Cincinnati, Ohio, or South Armory in Boston. Officers conducted summer training most years with the 10th Infantry Regiment at Camp Knox or Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Officers also conducted infantry Citizens' Military Training Camps some years at Fort Thomas or Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, as an alternate form of summer training. The primary ROTC "feeder" school for new Reserve lieutenants for the regiment was the University of Dayton. [1]

World War II

The 329th Infantry was rdered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. During World War II, Lieutenant Sam Magill facilitated the mass surrender of 20,000 German troops on the banks of the Loire River on 17 September 1944. Brigadier General John Mauldin was the regimental surgeon during World War II. He took more than 400 photographs between the time the unit landed in England eight days after D-Day until Germany was liberated in 1945. General George S. Patton reviewed the 329th and concluded "That’s the finest body of soldiers I have ever seen in the field."[ citation needed ] The 329th Infantry Regiment was the closest US unit to Berlin at the end of World War II, being ordered to stop some 30 miles short of the city. The regiment was inactivated on 6 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Cold War to present

Activated 1 October 1946 with headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana

(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 83d Infantry Division and assigned to the 70th Infantry Division (United States)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 329th Regiment, an element of the 70th Division (Training), with headquarters at Detroit, Michigan

(Location of headquarters changed 7 April 1966 to Fraser, Michigan)

Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st and 3d Battalions, elements of the 70th Division (Training)

Reorganized 1 September 1971 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 70th Division (Training)

Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 70th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 70th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 16 October - 16 November 1996 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 84th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 1 October 2004 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 100th Division (Institutional Training)

Restructured on 15 January 2014 to be an Observer Controller/Trainer battalion under the 2nd Operations brigade under the 86th Training Division and the 84th Training Command

Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

Coat of arms

Current configuration

Campaign participation credit

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for GURZENICH

See also

References

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from 329th Infantry Regiment. United States Army Institute of Heraldry.

  1. ↑ Clay, Steven E. (2010). U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941, Volume 1. The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations, 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 465.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. 1 2 "329th Regiment". The Institute of Heraldry. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
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