assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (3d Battalion consolidated 6 April 1945 with the 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry [see ANNEX], and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry) Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps) Redesignated 18 June 1948 as the 516th Airborne Infantry Withdrawn 25 June 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army (1st Battalion inactivated 1 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, at Morganfield, Kentucky) Regiment (less 1st Battalion) inactivated 22 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Regiment activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Relieved 27 April 1954 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, at Columbia, South Carolina. Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1956 as the 327th Airborne Infantry and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division Relieved 25 April 1957 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 327th Infantry, a parent regiment under the U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 21 January 1983 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 401st Infantry During the early part of World War II, after the formation of the division, the 101st had two two-battalion glider regiments, one of which was the 401st. When the TO&E for airborne divisions was changed to encompass a single three-battalion glider regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the 401st was transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Battalion of the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment served as the third battalion of the 327th GIR. This battalion was sea-landed in the Normandy invasion, glider-landed during Operation Market Garden and moved by truck to participate in the Battle of the Bulge. Constituted 23 July 1918 in the National Army as the 1st Battalion, 401st Infantry, an element of the 101st Division Demobilized 30 November 1918 Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 1st Battalion, 401st Infantry, an element of the 101st Division Organized in November 1921 with headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Disbanded 15 August 1942; concurrently reconstituted in the Army of the United States as the 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry, an element of the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Disbanded 1 March 1945 in France and the personnel and