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-- Richard M. Watt

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division

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Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 82d Division

Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia

Demobilized 27 May 1919 at Camp Mills, New York

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 82d Division

Organized 23 September 1921 at Columbia, South Carolina

Redesignated 13 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 82d Division

Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters, 82d Airborne Division

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)

Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
82d Airborne Division Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918

World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Normandy (with arrowhead); Rhineland (with arrowhead); Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Grenada; Panama

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for STE. MERE EGLISE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COTENTIN

French Croix de Guerre, World War II, 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 in BELGIUM AND GERMANY

Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for NIJMEGEN 1944

Netherlands Orange Lanyard

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