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The 501st Infantry Regiment, previously the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, is an airborne forces regiment of the United States Army. It is the first airborne unit by designation in the United States Armed Forces.
Lineages of the 1st and 2nd Battalions:
The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated at Camp Toccoa, Georgia on 15 November 1942.
The 501st was part of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II and the Vietnam War.
January 1944 the regiment deployed to England. World War II Engagements: Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, Battle of The Bulge, Invasion of Germany.
Disbanded 20 August 1945 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia (ahead of inactivation of 101st Airborne in November 1945).
The 501st was reconstituted on 1 August 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion. Inactivated on 23 November 1948 at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Active 1951–1956 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, as a non-Airborne training unit.
Moved to Fort Campbell, Kentucky in spring 1956. (Pentomic concept)
Redesignated on 25 April 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.
On 1 September 1957 Company A, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was re-designated as HHC, 1st Airborne Battle Group, 501st Infantry and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division; Company B, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was re-designated as HHC (Headquarters and Headquarters Company), 2nd Airborne Battle Group, 501st Infantry and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division.
1 February 1964, 2nd Airborne Battle Group, 501st Infantry was reorganized and re-designated as 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, relieved from assignment from 82nd Airborne and assigned to 101st Airborne Division (administrative move of unit colors only).
2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, inactivated on 31 July 1972. (Part of Post Vietnam Reorganization).
1st Battalion, 501st Infantry inactivated on 5 June 1984 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky under the U.S. Army Regimental System.
1st Battalion, 501st Infantry activated 1 October 1989 at Fort Richardson, Arkansa under the U.S. Army Regimental System. Assigned to the 6th Infantry Division.
Assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, on 14 July 2005.
Assigned to the 2nd Brigade (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division on 6 June 2022.
2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry activated 15 October 2013 and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
Nickname: Geronimo.
Motto: "Geronimo!".
Engagements:
World War II
Operation Overlord.
Operation Market Garden.
Battle of The Bulge.
Invasion of Germany.
Vietnam War.
War in Afghanistan.
Iraq War.
