68^th Armored Regiment

The 68th Infantry Regiment (Light Tanks) was not a normal combat-regiment case for this project. Its regiment-level record shows only the activation of the 1st and 2nd Battalions at Fort Benning, Georgia, on January 1, 1940. The 1st Battalion was inactivated on June 5, 1940, and the 2nd Battalion was redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, on July 15, 1940. The available regiment-level evidence does not show the 68th Infantry Regiment serving overseas or entering combat under that designation.

The later 68th Armored Regiment belongs to the armored-force reorganization problem rather than to a full regiment combat narrative. It was tied briefly to early armored-force development and is treated in this project as a 6th Armored Division special-case tank-origin unit, but its regiment-level record ended before combat. The combat evidence found locally concerns successor battalion service, especially the 68th Tank Battalion, not the 68th Armored Regiment as a deployed regiment. A full combat treatment should therefore be written only if the project expands to tank battalion packets.