Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division

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Constituted 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 2d Division

Organized 26 October 1917 in France

Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 2d Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
2d Infantry Division Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918

World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE

French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

Belgian Fourragere 1940

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ELSENBORN CREST

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA

  
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