34th Armor Regiment

34th Armor Regiment

Coat of arms
Active 1941
Country  United States
Branch Armor Branch (United States)
Nickname(s) Centurions (special designation)[1]
Motto FEAR GOD, DREADNAUGHT!
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia

The 34th Armor Regiment is an armored regiment of the United States Army formed in 1941.

Lineage

Constituted 28 August 1941 in the Regular Army as the 34th Armored Regiment and assigned to the 5th Armored Division

Activated 1 October 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Regiment broken up 20 September 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

After 20 September 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows:

34th Tank Battalion
772d Tank Battalion
10th Tank Battalion
Troop D, 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
Maintenance and Service Companies, 34th Armored Regiment

34th and 10th Medium Tank Battalions; 306th Heavy Tank Battalion; Company D, 85th Reconnaissance Battalion; and Maintenance and Service Companies, 34th Armored Regiment, consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 27 March 1957 as the 34th Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Withdrawn 16 February 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

Distinctive Unit Insignia

A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 5/32 inches (2.94 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, an arm embowed Proper and couped at the shoulder raised and armed with a buckler Or having seven rivets of the field three and four.

The buckler represents the armored protective device. The arm embowed is raised in the attitude of striking.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 34th Armored Regiment (Light) on 10 December 1941. It was redesignated for the 34th Armored Regiment on 26 March 1942. The insignia was redesignated for the 34th Tank Battalion on 10 November 1943. It was redesignated for the 34th Medium Tank Battalion on 29 March 1954. It was redesignated for the 34th Armor Regiment on 20 January 1958.

Coat Of Arms

Blazon

Azure, an arm embowed Proper and couped at the shoulder raised and armed with a buckler Or having seven rivets of the field three and four.

On a wreath Or and Azure, in front of a tower Gules masoned of the first and emitting from each side a stream of water of the second, three spears one in pale and two in saltire with shafts of the first and points of the second those points in saltire each charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first, over all in pale an escutcheon barry of ten Argent and of the second. Motto THE STRONG ARM FOR VICTORY.

The buckler represents the armored protective device. The arm embowed is raised in the attitude of striking.

The red tower gushing water to each side alludes to the bitter campaign to secure the dams of the Roer River, for which the Regiment received a Distinguished Unit Citation. The spears refer to the unit’s push through Normandy, Northern France and Germany. The shield, bearing a part of the arms of Luxembourg, represents the award of the Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for participation in the liberation of that state.

The coat of arms was originally approved for the 34th Armored Regiment (Light) on 10 December 1941. It was redesignated for the 34th Armored Regiment on 26 March 1942. It was redesignated for the 34th Tank Battalion on 10 November 1943. The insignia was redesignated for the 34th Medium Tank Battalion on 29 March 1954. It was redesignated for the 34th Armor Regiment on 20 January 1958. The insignia was amended to add a crest on 9 June 1964.

Campaign participation credit

World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam': Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Southwest Aisa: Operation Iraq Freedom based out of Forward Operating Base Gabe, Baqubah 2005-2006

Decorations

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document "34th Armor Lineage and Honors".

  1. "Special Unit Designations". United States Army Center of Military History. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
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