PART III
66TH ARMORED REGIMENT
66th Infantry Regiment (Light Tanks) redesignated 15 July 1940 as 66th Armored Regiment and assigned to the 2nd Armored Division.
Campaigns: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
67TH ARMORED REGIMENT
67th Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks) redesignated 15 July 1940 as 67th Armored Regiment and assigned to the 2nd Armored Division.
Campaigns: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Tunisia, Sicily (with arrowhead), Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
68TH ARMORED REGIMENT
68th Infantry Regiment (Light Tanks) redesignated 68th Armored Regiment and assigned to the 2nd Armored Division.
Activated 1 August 1940.
Inactivated 8 January 1942 and releved from assignment to 2ndArmored Division.
Activated 13 February 1942 and assigned to the 6th Armored Division.
Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company, and 2nd Battalion as 68th Tank Battalion.
1st Battalion as 773rd Tank Battalion and relieved of assignment to 6th Armored Division.
3rd Battalion as 15th Tank Battalion.
Reconnaissance Company as Troop D, 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron.
Band, Maintenance, and Service Companies disbanded.
69TH ARMORED REGIMENT
69th Armored Regiment activated 31 July 1940 and assigned to the 1st Amored Division.
Inactivated10 January 1942.
Relieved 15 February 1942 fro assignment to the 1st Armored Division, activated, and assigned to the 6th Armored Division.
Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company, and Companies A, B, C, and D as 68th Tank Battalion.
3rd Battalion as 708th Tank Battalion and relieved of assignment to the 6th Armored Division.
Reconnaissance Company as Troop E, 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron.
Remainder of 2nd Battalion personnel absorbed into the 68th Tank Battalion.
Maintenance and Service Companies disbanded.
80TH ARMORED REGIMENT
8th Armored Regiment redesignated 8 May 1941 as 80th Armored Regiment.
Inactivated 5 January 1942 and relieved of assignment to 4th Armored Division.
Activated 1 April 1942 and assigned to the 8th Armored Division.
Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Regiment (less 3rd Battalion, Band, Maintenance, Service and Reconnaissance Companies) as 80th Tank Battalion
3rd Battalion as 710th Tank Battalion and relieved from assignment to 8th Armored Division.
Reconnaissance Company as Troop E, 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron.
Band, Maintenance and Service Companies disbanded.
81ST ARMORED REGIMENT
81st Armored Regiment activated 1 October 1941 and assigned to the 5th Armored Division.
Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Regiment (less 3rd Battalion, Band, Maintenance, Service and Reconnaissance Companies) as 81st Tank Battalion.
3rd battalion as 707th Tank Battalion and relieved fro assignment to the 5th Armored Division.
Reconnaissance Company as Troop E, 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron.
Band, Maintenance, and Service Companies disbanded.
ARMORED FORCES SCHOOL DEMONSTRATION REGIMENT
Activated 1 February 1942.
Inactivated 24 January 1945
NOTE: Campaign participation is only shown for the regiments that served in combat in the regimental construct. All others were reorganized before they entered combat.
The notation (with arrowhead) to an individual campaign indicates the unit involved participated in the invasion of enemy held territory during the course of that campaign.
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