The 734th Regional Support Group is a unit of the Iowa National Guard that has a long lineage. The unit was originally raised in 1921 in Des Moines as HHC and Company C 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment of the 34th Infantry Division. [1] The unit was federalized in 1941 and earned six campaign streamers in World War II: Tunisia, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, North Apennines and Po Valley plus a Presidential Unit Citation and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm (Belvedere). The unit returned to Iowa after the war.
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