The 49th Infantry Regiment was an Regular infantry regiment in the United States Army.

Lineage

Constuted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 49th Infantry. Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York, from personnel of the 23rd Infantry. Inactivated 18 November 1921 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. disbanded 31 July 1922.

Reconstituted in the regular Army as the 49th Armored Infantry and assigned to the 8th Armored Division 18 July 1941. Activated 1 April 1942 at Fort Knox

Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...

, Kentucky. Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, and elements reorganized and redesignated as elements of the 8th Armored Division as follows-

• 49th Armored Infantry (less 1st and 2nd Battalions) as the 49th Armored Infantry Battalion.
• 1st Battalion as the 58th Armored Infantry Battalion.
• 2nd Battalion as the 7th Armored Infantry Battalion.

Coat Of Arms

The field is blue for Infantry. The tower is taken from the stone tower at Fort Snelling, the station of the regiment. The key is from the arms of Le Mans

Le Mans

Le Mans is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region.Its inhabitants are called Manceaux...

, France and commemorates the service of the regiment in the vicinity of that city in 1918.

See also

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• Coats of arms of U.S. Infantry Regiments
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