Active 1917–43 Branch United States Army Size Regiment | Country United States Type Infantry | |
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Motto(s) Aquila Electa Juste Omnia Vincet (The chosen eagle conquers by right) | ||
The 49th Infantry Regiment was a regular infantry regiment in the United States Army.
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The regiment was constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 49th Infantry. It was organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York, from personnel of the 23rd Infantry, inactivated 18 November 1921 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and disbanded 31 July 1922.
Reconstituted in the regular Army as the 49th Armored Infantry and assigned to the 8th Armored Division 18 July 1941. Activated 1 April 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Regiment was broken up 20 September 1943, and elements reorganized and redesignated as elements of the 8th Armored Division as follows-Campaign streamers
World War I
Coat of arms
The field is blue for Infantry. The tower is taken from the stone tower at Fort Snelling, the station of the regiment. The key is from the arms of Le Mans, France and commemorates the service of the regiment in the vicinity of that city in 1918.
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