The 63rd Armor Regiment is an

armored regiment Armoured warfare or armored warfare (American English; see spelling differences), is the use of armoured fighting vehicles in modern warfare. It is a major component of modern methods of war. The premise of armored warfare rests on the abili ...

of the

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formed in 1942.

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Constituted 3 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 745th Tank Battalion Activated 15 August 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as the 745th Tank Battalion, Medium Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 745th Tank Battalion Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 14 September 1948 as the 63d Heavy Tank Battalion, allotted to the Regular Army, and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division Activated 10 October 1948 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1950 as the 63d Tank Battalion Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 63d Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 September 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor deployed in March of 1996 from Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany to Camp Able Sentry, Skopje, Macedonia. There, they participated in a United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) to monitor Macedonia's border with Serbia. The battalion returned to Germany in September of 1996, relieved by the 1st battalion 63rd Armor 1st and 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor deployed in 1999 from Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany to Camp Able Sentry, Skopje, Macedonia with operations within Kosovo as part of Task Force Falcon. The battalion returned in June of 2000. 2nd Battalion deployed from Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom II under the 1st Infantry Division from January 2004 till February 2005 at FOB Scunion near Baqubah, Iraq.

Campaign participation credit

;World War II *Normandy (with arrowhead) *Northern France *Rhineland *Ardennes-Alsace *Central Europe ;Modern *Kosovo (2003) *Operation Iraqi Freedom II (2004–5)

Decorations

*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1988 *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1990 *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996–1997 *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY *Belgian Fourragere 1940 **Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons **Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy

References

{cbignore, bot=medic https://www.stripes.com/news/2-63-armor-regiment-soldiers-return-to-vilseck-from-iraq-1.29763#.WXKVNMYZOt8 https://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/unpred_p.htm Armored regiments of the United States Army, 063 Military units and formations established in 1942

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