5th Battalion, 33d Armor
RA
(194th
Armored Brigade)
Lineage
Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as Company E, 3d
Armored
Regiment, an element of the 3d Armored Division.
Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.
Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company E, 33d Armored Regiment.
Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany.
Redesignated 7 July 1947 as Company B, 33d Tank Battalion.
Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as an element of the 3d
Armored Division.
Reorganized and redesignated 30 July 1948 as company B, 33d Medium Tank
Battalion.
Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1955 as Company B, 33d Tank
Battalion
Inactivated 1 October 1957 in Germany; concurrently, redesignated as
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Medium Tank Battalion, 33d
Armor, and relieved from assignment to 3d Armored Division (organic
elements constituted 10 May 1963).
Activated 1 July 1963 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Redesignated 24 September 1963 as 5th Battalion, 33d Armor.
Assigned 15 April 1968 to 194th Armored Brigade
Inactivated 16 June 1986 at Fort Knox, Kentucky and relieved from
assignment to the 194th Armored Brigade with all personnel and equipment
being transferred to the 2d Battalion, 10th Cavalry.
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
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