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| 42nd Infantry Regiment | |
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| Active | 1917-1944 |
| Country |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Regiment |
| Motto(s) | none |
| Colors | blue |
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The 42nd Infantry Regiment is an inactive infantry regiment in the United States Army.
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Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 42nd Infantry. Organized 24 June 1917 at Fort Douglas, Utah from personnel of the 20th Infantry. Assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 5 July 1918. The regiment was subsequently assigned to Camp Mills, New York. When the Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended World War I, the regiment was no longer needed for combat in France, and it was relieved from assignment to the 12th Division on 31 January 1919. Colonel James R. Lindsay commanded the regiment beginning in March 1919, and its subordinate units were subsequently posted to other bases and camps. [1] The 42nd Infantry was later assigned to duty in Panama, and it was inactivated at Camp Gillard, Canal Zone, as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30 April 1927; 1st Battalion, 14 March 1927; 2nd Battalion, 18 April 1927.
The 42nd Infantry was allotted to the Second Corps Area 28 February 1927. It was affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico on 18 April 1930. It was re-organized at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on 1 February 1939, and disbanded 11 November 1944.
A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, semé of bees Or, a cross Argent, on a canton of the last two saltires of the field.
The shield is blue for Infantry. The Regiment was organized at Fort Douglas, Utah, in May 1917, from the 20th Infantry which is shown on the canton. The bees are taken from the arms of Utah. The Regiment is now recruited from Puerto Rico shown by the cross taken from the old banner of the island.
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 14 November 1923. It was rescinded/cancelled on 28 January 1959.
Azure, semé of bees Or, a cross Argent, on a canton of the last two saltires of the field.
In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division of the field.
In heraldry, an ordinary is one of the two main types of charges, beside the mobile charges. An ordinary is a simple geometrical figure, bounded by straight lines and running from side to side or top to bottom of the shield. There are also some geometric charges known as subordinaries, which have been given lesser status by some heraldic writers, though most have been in use as long as the traditional ordinaries. Diminutives of ordinaries and some subordinaries are charges of the same shape, though thinner. Most of the ordinaries are theoretically said to occupy one-third of the shield; but this is rarely observed in practice, except when the ordinary is the only charge.
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb to blazon means to create such a description. The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements. A coat of arms or flag is therefore primarily defined not by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon. Blazon is also the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, the act of writing such a description. Blazonry is the art, craft or practice of creating a blazon. The language employed in blazonry has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms.
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