54^th Armored Infantry Regiment

The 54th Armored Infantry Regiment was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, on July 15, 1942, and assigned to the 10th Armored Division. It moved to the Tennessee Maneuver Area in June 1943 and then to Camp Gordon, Georgia, in September as the Army reshaped its armored divisions for combat service.

The regiment did not serve overseas as a regiment. On September 20, 1943, at Camp Gordon, it was reorganized into separate armored infantry battalions. The regiment, less the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions, became the 54th Armored Infantry Battalion. The 3rd Battalion was disbanded, while the 1st and 2nd Battalions became the 61st and 20th Armored Infantry Battalions. Those battalions later provided infantry to the 10th Armored Division during its combat service in Lorraine, the Saar-Moselle area, the Ardennes, the Saar-Palatinate, southern Germany, and Austria. The regiment-level history ends with the September 1943 reorganization and should not be expanded into the battalions' combat record unless battalion summaries are separately authorized.