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- Organization
22d Infantry Regiment was awarded its Distinctive Unit Insignia on May 8 1923, with the following emblazon:
The embattled partition line is for the wars in which the regiment has taken part. The arrows stand for the five Indian campaigns it took part in; The sun in speldor was for the old Katipunan device in the Philippine Insurrection.
Campaigns
Indian Wars
- Little Big Horn
- Pine Ridge, North Dakota, 1869/69
- Montana 1872
Spanish-American War
- Santiago
Phillipine Insurrection
- Manila
- Malolos
- San Isidro
- Mindanao
- Jolo
- Luzon 1900
World War II
History
22d Infantry Regiment was stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, as a component of the 8th Infantry Brigade, which was the sole active component of the deactivated 4th Infantry Division. 22d Inf Regt moved to Fort Benning on February 21 1941 to train with the division, and then moved to Camp Gordon, Georgia on December 27 1941, where it was reorganized under a Motorized TO&E on September 9 1942.
22d Inf Regt moved to Fort Dix, NJ on April 16 1943, where it was reorganized under a regular Infantry TO&E on August 1 1943. the Regiment continued to train for combat, moving on to Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida on September 28 1943, and to Fort Jackson, South Carolina on December 1 1943. 22nd IR subsequently got its Port Call orders, and Staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on January 8 1944 until it shipped out from the New York POE on January 18 1944.
22d Inf Regt arrived in England on January 29 1944, settled in near Plymouth, and started preperations to assault Utah Beach.
22d Inf Regt assaulted Utah Beach on June 6 1944, as part of VII Corps in the D-Day Invasion, and arrived in the vincinity of Pavenoville, France by the end of D-day. It then participated in the Cherbourg Penninsula operation while attached to 2d Armored Division from July 19 through August 2 1944.
22d Inf Regt then returned to 4th Infantry Division, and headed for Belgium as part of the Operation COBRA, moved into to Belgium on September 6 1944, and entered Germany on September 11 1944. The regiment was attached to 83d Infantry Division between December 3-7, 1944, and then returned to 4th Infantry Division in Luxembourg on December 12 1944. 22nd IR then moved to Belgium on January 28 1945, and re-entered Germany on February 7 1945, where it remained on mop-up and occupation until July 12 1945, when it DEROSed tothe New York POE, and moved to its temporary home at Camp Butner, North Carolina while the regiment trained for movement to Japan. However, the war in the Pacific terminated, and 22d Inf Regt remained at Camp Butner until it was deactivated on March 5 1946.
- WW-II Campaigns
- Normandy
- Morthern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
1st Battalion, 22d Infantry Regiment