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Circa 2005 the 1st Battalion was a tank unit of the 3rd Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division (United States) in Buffalo, NY. [14] The 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry, also carries the lineage of the 1st Battalion, 127th Armor Regiment, which was converted into the 2nd Squadron, 101st Cav when the New York Army National Guard reorganized in 2005-2006.
ARMOR is the professional journal, originally published as the Cavalry Journal in 1885. The name was changed to Armor in 1940 after the transition from Horse Cavalry to Armor for the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, published by the Chief of Armor at Fort Moore, GA., training center for the Army's tank and cavalry forces.
An armored cavalry regiment (ACR) is a regiment of the United States Army (Active Component, or Reserve Component (Army Reserve or Army National Guard)) organized for the specific purposes of reconnaissance, surveillance, and security. The regiments can be equipped with Cavalry Fighting Vehicles, tanks and helicopters.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
The Army Ground Forces: The Organization of Ground Combat Troops (PDF). United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History. Stanton, Shelby L. (1984). Order of Battle U.S. Army, World War II. Novato. California: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-195-X. Zaloga, Steve (2005). US Tank and Tank Destroyer Battalions in the ...
The tank destroyer battalion was a type of military unit used by the United States Army during World War II. The unit was organized in one of two different forms—a towed battalion equipped with anti-tank guns , or a mechanized battalion equipped with armored self-propelled guns .
The 70th Tank Battalion was the U.S. Army's first separate tank battalion, activated on 15 June 1940, from Regular Army troops. Four more separate tank battalions (the 191st–194th) were formed soon after from National Guard tank companies from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
301st Heavy Tank Battalion (United States) 628th Tank Battalion (United States) 717th Tank Battalion; 735th Tank Battalion (United States) 741st Tank Battalion (United States) 743rd Tank Battalion; 745th Tank Battalion; 746th Tank Battalion (United States) 747th Tank Battalion (United States) 752nd Tank Battalion; 754th Tank Battalion; 756th ...