59^th Armored Infantry Regiment

The 59th Armored Infantry Regiment was activated at Camp Beale, California, on October 15, 1942, and assigned to the 13th Armored Division. Its existence as a regiment was brief and entirely stateside. On September 20, 1943, before the division deployed overseas, the Army reorganized it into the battalion-based armored division structure.

Under that reorganization, the regiment, less the 1st and 2nd Battalions, became the 59th Armored Infantry Battalion. The 1st Battalion became the 67th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the 2nd Battalion became the 16th Armored Infantry Battalion. These battalions were the infantry successors that accompanied the 13th Armored Division when it later reached France, joined operations against the Ruhr Pocket, and advanced through Bavaria toward the Inn River in the final weeks of the war. The 59th Armored Infantry Regiment itself had no separate combat record; its regiment-level history is limited to activation, assignment, and reorganization.