25 April 1941 in the Army of the United States as the 73d Tank Battalion Redesignated 8 May 1941 as the 753d Tank Battalion Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Benning, Georgia Reorganized and redesignated 9 September 1942 as the 753d Tank Battalion, Medium Reorganized and redesignated 29 March 1944 as the 753d Tank Battalion Inactivated 15 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky Inactivated 15 October 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky Redesignated 20 March 1949 as the 77th Heavy Tank Battalion, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, and activated in Camp Chitose Hokkaido Japan. Redesignated 5 August 1950 as the 77th Medium Tank Battalion Yokohama Japan. Redesignated late August as 17th, 31st and 32nd Regimental Tank Companies Yokohama Japan. Relieved 10 October 1951 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division Inactivated 10 November 1951 Korea Redesignated 24 January 1962 as the 77th Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 19 February 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor, assigned to the 5th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado Relieved 21 March 1973 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division Withdrawn 16 February 1989 from the Combat arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System. Inactivated 15 December 1989 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment is activated 5 April 1996 at Schweinfurt, Germany as part of the 2nd "Dagger Brigade" 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized). 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment is redesignated 5 March 2008 at Fort Bliss, Texas as part of the 4th Brigade "Highlanders", 1st Armored Division Campaign history World War II Sicily Naples-Foggia Rome-Arno Southern France Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe Korean War UN Defensive UN Offensive CCF Intervention First UN Counteroffensive CCF Spring Offensive UN Summer-Fall Offensive Vietnam War Counteroffensive, Phase V Counteroffensive, Phase VI Tet 1969 Counteroffensive Summer-Fall 1969 Winter-Spring 1970 Sanctuary Counteroffensive Counteroffensive, Phase VII Consolidation I Balkans Operation Joint Guard, NATO intervention in Bosnia 1997 Operation Joint Guard II NATO intervention in Kosovo 1999 NATO peacekeeping in Kosovo 2002 Global War on Terrorism Operation Iraqi Freedom II Operation Iraqi Freedom 06-08 Operation Iraqi Freedom 09-10 Operation New Dawn (Iraq) 11 Operation Enduring Freedom 12–13 Decorations 73rd Tank Battalion (independent) French Croix de Guerre with Palm,