3d Battalion, 33d Armor ("Pickles")
RA
(3d Armored Division)
Lineage
and Honors
Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as Company C, 3d
Armored Regiment, an element of the 3d Armored Division.
Activated 15 April 1941 as Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.
Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company C, 33d Armored Regiment, to 3d
Battalion 33d 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, 62d Heavy Tank Battalion.
(62d Heavy Tank Battalion assigned 18 June 1948 to 10th Infantry
Division.)
Activated 1 July 1948 at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
Redesignated 15 June 1954 as Company C, 62d Medium Tank Battalion.
Inactivated 1 October 1957 in Germany; concurrently, redesignated as
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Medium Tank Battalion
(Patton), 33d Armor, and relieved from assignment to 10th Infantry
Division.
Activated 25 June 1958 at Fort Knox, Kentucky (organic elements
constituted 10 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958).
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1963 as 3d Battalion, 33d Armor;
concurrently transferred (less personnel and equipment) from Fort Knox,
Kentucky, to United States Army Europe, and assigned to 3d Armored
Division*. Inactivated 16 February 1987 in Germany and relieved from assignment
to the 3d Armored Division with all personnel and equipment being
transferred to the 4th Battalion, 8th Cavalry.
*The revival of the Pickles in 3d Armored Division was accomplished using personnel and equipment from the 2d Medium Tank
Battalion, 1st Cavalry, 3d Armored Division.
Campaign
Participation Credit
World War II
* Normandy
* Northern France
* Rhineland
* Ardennes - Alsace
* Central Europe
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered
HASTENRATH-SCHERPENSEL
* French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II,
Streamer embroidered MONS (33d Armored Regiment cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
* Belgian Fourragere 1940 (33d Armored Regiment cited; DA GO 43,
1950)
* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action 3
-13 September 1944 in BELGIUM
* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action 20
-25 December 1944 in the ARDENNES
Superior Unit Award (Army) for the period 24 Sep 86- 16 Feb 87 GAO
20, 30 Aug 91
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