48^th Armored Infantry Regiment

The 48th Armored Infantry Regiment was activated at Camp Polk, Louisiana, on March 2, 1942, and assigned to the 7th Armored Division. It trained in Louisiana, participated in maneuvers from September to November 1942, and then returned to Camp Polk. In 1943 the regiment moved west to Camp Young, California, and later to Fort Benning, Georgia, as the Army prepared the armored divisions for the lighter battalion-based organization used overseas.

The regiment did not enter combat as a regiment. On September 20, 1943, at Fort Benning, it was reorganized into armored infantry battalions. The regiment, less its 1st and 2nd Battalions, became the 48th Armored Infantry Battalion; the 1st Battalion became the 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the 2nd Battalion became the 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion. These successor battalions served with the 7th Armored Division after it landed in France in August 1944 and fought through northern France, the Metz region, Holland, the Ardennes, the Rhineland, the Ruhr Pocket, and northern Germany. The 48th's regiment-level record is therefore a stateside training and reorganization history.