50^th Armored Infantry Regiment

The 50th Armored Infantry Regiment was activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on February 15, 1942, and assigned to the 6th Armored Division. It moved to Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, in March and trained through the Louisiana Maneuvers that summer. The regiment then transferred to Camp Young, California, in October 1942 and to Camp Cooke, California, in March 1943, as the division prepared under the Army's evolving armored organization.

The 50th did not fight overseas as a regiment. On September 20, 1943, at Camp Cooke, it was reorganized into armored infantry battalions. The regiment, less the 1st and 2nd Battalions, became the 50th Armored Infantry Battalion; the 1st Battalion became the 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the 2nd Battalion became the 9th Armored Infantry Battalion. Those successor battalions served in the 6th Armored Division's later campaigns from Normandy and Brittany through Lorraine, the Ardennes, the West Wall, the Rhine crossing, and central Germany. The regiment-level history therefore ends as a training and reorganization record rather than a separate combat record.