62d Tank Battalion

RA

10th Infantry Division

62d Tank Bn, 10th Inf Div          62d Armor Bn Unit Crest

LINEAGE AND HONORS

Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as 2d Battalion, 3d Armored Regiment (Light) and assigned to the 3d Armored Division.  Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.  Redesignated 8 May 1941 as 2d Battalion, 33d Armored Regiment.  Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany.  Disbanded 7 July 1947.

Reconstituted 28 May 1948 in the Regular Army as the 62d Heavy Tank Battalion.  Assigned to the 10th Infantry Division, 18 June 1948.  Activated 1 July 1948 at Fort Riley, Kansas.  Redesignated 15 June 1954 as the 62d Tank Battalion.  Inactivated 7 July 1957 in Germany.  Relieved from the 10th Infantry Division, 1 October 1957, and consolidated with the 33d Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II

Normandy

Northern France

Rhineland

Ardennes-Alsace

Central Europe

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HASTENRATH-SCHERPENSEL (Co I, 33d Armored Regt cited for the period 16-19 Nov 1944; WD GO 66, 1945)

French Croix de Guerre with gold Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered MONS (33d Armored Regt cited for period 31 Aug-3 Sept 1944, DA GO 43, 1950)

Belgian Fourragere 1940 (33d Armored Regt cited; DA GO 43, 1950)

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM (33d Armored Regt cited for period 3-13 Sept 1944: DA GO 43, 1950)

Cited in the Order of The Day of the Belgium Army for action in the ARDENNES (33d Armored Regt cited for period 20 Dec 1944-31 Jan 1945: DA GO 43, 1950)

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Arm for the action in BELGIUM (1st and 2d Battalion [with Companies A, B, D, E, and I] and 1st Plat, Recon Co, 33d Armored Regt cited for period 17-25 Jan 1945: DA CO 43, 1950)

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action along the MEUSE RIVER (1st Bn [with Companies A, F and I] and 3d Plat, Recon Co, 33d Armored Regt cited for period 3-13 Sept 1944; DA GO 43: 1950)

COAT OF ARMS

SHIELD: Vert, in orle thirty-three plates, all within a bordure or.

CREST: None.

MOTTO: On Y Sera ( We shall be There).

The use of the shield of the coat of arms for the former 33d Armored Regiment, differenced by a border, indicates the descent of the 62d Tank Battalion form the 2d Battalion of that organization.  Green and white were the colors of the World War II Armored Force: the border has been made yellow for Armor.  The thirty-three roundels indicate the numerical designation of the parent unit.

DISTINCTIVE INSIGNIA

 The insignia is the shield and motto of the coat of arms.  The sample of the insignia was approved 17 October 1955.