67^th Armored Regiment

The 67th Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks) was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, on June 5, 1940, and redesignated the 67th Armored Regiment on July 15, 1940. Its combat record belongs to the 2nd Armored Division. During Operation TORCH on November 8, 1942, the regiment's battalions were split between the Western Task Force landings: the 1st Battalion landed with the Center Attack Group near Fedala, while the 2nd and 3rd Battalions formed part of the Southern Attack Group at Safi. The Safi force was intended to put medium tanks ashore for movement inland and for possible use against Casablanca; at Fedala, 1st Battalion vehicles came ashore on November 9 and assembled for operations supporting the advance on Casablanca.

The regiment next served with the 2nd Armored Division in Sicily. Elements of Company I came ashore near Gela on July 11, 1943, where surf, soft sand, and congestion delayed the tanks. By nightfall, the 3rd Battalion and Company E had also landed, giving Combat Command B a growing armored force for the division's movement out of the beachhead and toward Palermo. After transfer to Britain, the 67th fought within the division's combat-command system from Normandy into northern France, Belgium, and Holland.

The regiment's later record is especially clear in the Rhineland and Ardennes. In November 1944, Company H supported Task Force X at Immendorf, while Company I fought near Apweiler during the German counterattack of November 19. Sergeant Stanley Herrin's Company I crew was credited with destroying German armor in that action. During the Ardennes counteroffensive, platoons of the 67th helped destroy Panthers near Boisselles on Christmas Day, and the 2nd Battalion, led by Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel E. Pope, isolated Humain on December 27 before the village was cleared. In 1945, the regiment continued with the 2nd Armored Division through the Roer and Rhine operations, the Lippstadt link-up, crossings of the Weser and Leine, and the advance to the Elbe near Magdeburg, ending the war in Germany with the division.