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Doughboys of the 56th Infantry during bayonet practice at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, July 17, 1918.. The 56th Armored Infantry Regiment traced its origin back to the 17th Infantry Regiment of Maj. Gen. George Sykes' 2nd Division of the 5th Army Corps, of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.
The color scheme used for the insignia's chevron was olive drab for field use uniforms or one of several colors depending on the corps on dress uniforms. The chevron system used by enlisted men during World War I came into being on July 17, 1902, [ 1 ] and was changed to a different system in 1919.
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Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
2nd Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 26th Infantry Regiment 28th Infantry Regiment 3rd Machine Gun Battalion Brig. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard Brig. Gen. Beaumont B. Buck Brig. Gen. Frank E. Bamford Brig. Gen. George C. Barnhardt Brig. Gen. Francis Marshall: 3rd Infantry Brigade: 2nd Division: October 6, 1917 9th Infantry Regiment 23rd ...
Shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI) are cloth emblems worn on the shoulders of US Army uniforms to identify the primary headquarters to which a soldier is assigned. The SSI of some army divisions have become known in popular culture.
56th Cavalry Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia. Brigade included Texas units (lone star) and New Mexico units (red Zia sun). At the start of World War I the War Department organized two National Guard Cavalry brigades as part of the Army's wartime expansion, and assigned them to relieve Regular Army Cavalry brigades patrolling the Mexico–United States border after the Pancho Villa Expedition. [1]
The regiment was inactivated on 22 September 1921 at Camp Meade, Maryland and disbanded 31 July 1922, with personnel concurrently transferred to the 34th Infantry Regiment. Reconstituted in the Regular Army as the 55th Armored Infantry and assigned to the 11th Armored Division 9 June 1942.