197th Infantry Regiment
Assignment not established
The available record does not establish a precise assignment throughout this interval. No division is inferred.
First division shownNot establishedSee source notes
Separate unit histories1 documented elementsDated lineages and service notes below
Page cutoff8 September 2026Last-documented status is explicitly marked
One regiment, separate assignments
The common row follows the regiment. After its reorganization, battle groups and battalions could hold different assignments at the same time. A deployment or temporary attachment does not by itself change the assigned division. Battalion rows follow headquarters lineages, often descended from lettered companies, rather than assuming that the old regimental battalions continued unchanged.
A short-lived separate regiment in Alaska; it is not the 197th Infantry Brigade. The later battalion chronology is incomplete here.
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1 Jan 1916 – 29 Jan 1943
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29 Jan 1943 – 1 Jan 1944
197th Infantry Regiment
No assigned division
The cited record establishes service outside an assigned division. Higher headquarters and temporary operational attachments could still direct the unit.
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1 Jan 1944 – page cutoff*
197th Infantry Regiment
Last documented: Assignment not established
The available record does not establish a precise assignment throughout this interval. No division is inferred. The source establishes this last recorded status, not uninterrupted service through 2026. The striped bar extends to the page cutoff to keep the later research gap visible.
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29 Jan 1943 – 1 Jan 1944
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
No assigned division
The cited record establishes service outside an assigned division. Higher headquarters and temporary operational attachments could still direct the unit.
Deployments & overseas operations
1943
Aleutian Islands
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Deployment / campaign service
Former 2d Battalion, 134th Infantry; the later reorganization is documented in Nebraska History.
Source
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1 Jan 1944 – page cutoff*
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Last documented: Assignment not established
The available record does not establish a precise assignment throughout this interval. No division is inferred. The source establishes this last recorded status, not uninterrupted service through 2026. The striped bar extends to the page cutoff to keep the later research gap visible.
Sources and scope
Army Center of Military History lineage certificates, regimental associations and secondary histories document assignments, operations and battalions. Exact lineage dates and approximate historical coverage are distinguished. Where the evidence stops, the page says so. A page cutoff is not a claim that every unit directory was current on that date.
Earlier battalions are covered by common regimental service; separately dated lineages and substantiated later battalions receive their own rows or notes. A unit graphic alone is not evidence of a battalion assignment. Reserve, training and inactive organizations are distinguished from active combat units.
- Nebraska History: Nebraska’s Lost Battalion, 1992
- George Nafziger: American Infantry Regiments, 1941–1945 (secondary compilation)
Patch artwork
Unmodified artwork from Wikimedia Commons; individual file pages identify the artist and license. Insignia represent the divisions, not regimental affiliation badges.