117th Infantry Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 117th Infantry Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment
This entry now anchors the battalion page in the regiment's origin or defining early identity, giving the 1st Battalion slot a more specific historical frame than the first scaffold pass.
The 117th Infantry Regiment belongs to the Army's modern preserved lineage system and reflects continuity of unit identity through major organizational change. It forms part of the broad structure that supported mobilization and historical memory in the twentieth century.
2d Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment
The 2d Battalion entry uses the regiment's middle or operational arc to give the page a clearer sense of how the parent unit developed over time.
Its story is chiefly carried through lineage and honors rather than through one continuous independent regimental field career.
3d Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment
The 3d Battalion entry now carries the regiment into its later or enduring modern identity, tightening the page around the way the lineage is remembered in the modern Army.
The 117th Infantry remains part of the Army's larger institutional heritage.
4th Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment
The 4th Battalion developed from the 4th Armored Rifle Battalion, organized in 1959 from the 170th Armored Infantry Battalion.
Headquartered at Henderson, Tennessee, it took the battalion designation in 1963 and joined the 30th Armored Brigade in 1973. National Guard battalion survey (Wikipedia).
Research note: The added historical entries cite their sources individually. Regimental illustrations are labeled as such. An earlier battalion designation can continue through another battalion or a separate battery; these relationships are identified in the entries. The original three entries are retained; the additional entries do not treat regimental campaign credits as evidence that every battalion fought in those campaigns.
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