Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as 3d Armored Regiment
(Light)
and assigned to 3d Armored Division. Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp
Beauregard, Louisiana. Redesignated 8 May 1941 as 33d Armored
Regiment. Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Europe.
Regiment broken up 7 July 1947, and reorganized and redesignated as
follows: 33d Armored Regiment (less certain elements) as 33d Tank
Battalion; Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, and
Companies G and H as Service Company and Companies B and C, respectively,
7th Tank Battalion (remainder of 7th Tank Battalion from elements of the the
32d Armored Regiment); Reconnaissance Company as Troop E, 83d Mechanized
Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (hereafter separate lineage).
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, Companies B, C, and I,
and Service and Maintenance Companies disbanded.
7th and 33d Tank Battalions activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, and assigned to 3d Armored Division. Reorganized and
redesignated 30 July 1948 as 7th and 33d Medium Tank Battalions.
Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1955 as 7th and 33d Tank Battalions.
Inactivated 1 October 1957 in Europe; concurrently, relieved (less Company
D), 7th Tank Battalion) from assignment to 3d Armored Division.
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion; Service Company; and
Companies B, C, and I, 33d Armored Regiment, reconstituted 28 May 1948 in
the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service
Company, and Companies B, C and A, respectively, 62d Heavy Tank Battalion.
Assigned 18 June 1948 to 10th Infantry Division. Activated 1 July 1948
at Fort Riley, Kansas. Reorganized and redesignated 15 June 1954 as
62d Tank Battalion. Inactivated 7 July 1957 in Germany. Relieved
1 October 1957 from assignment to 10th Infantry Division.
33d and 62d Tank Battalions and elements of the 7th Tank Battalion
consolidated and redesignated 1 October 1957 as 33d Armor, a parent regiment
under the Combat Arms Regimental System (Headquarters, Headquarters and
Service Company, 33d Tank Battalion, concurrently redesignated as
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 33d Armor).
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
- Rhineland
- Normandy
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Northern France
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit
Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HASTENRATH-SCHERPENSEL (Headquarters
and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 33d Armored Regiment, and Companies
A, F and I cited; WD GO 66, 1945)
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
*DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, ARMY LINEAGE SERIES, Armor-Cavalry Part I, Mary
Lee Stubbs and Stanley Russell Connor , Center of Military History United
States Army, pages 279 - 281
