27th Infantry Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 27th Infantry Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 27th 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 27th Infantry Regiment, the Wolfhounds, was created in 1901 during the Army's expansion for service in the Philippines. It quickly built a field reputation in the Pacific and later became one of the regiments most closely associated with the 25th Infantry Division.
2d Battalion, 27th 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 twentieth-century combat history centers on service with the 25th Infantry Division in World War II and later in Korea, where the division's fighting made the regiment one of the Army's better-known lineages. That divisional association continued into the Cold War and later battalion-era service.
3d Battalion, 27th 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 Wolfhounds remain one of the classic examples of a regiment created in the imperial-era Army that went on to define itself in the Pacific and Asian wars of the twentieth century.
4th Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment
The 4th Battalion served with the 3d Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, from 1987 to 1995.
During Desert Storm, it furnished platoons that guarded the Third Army's forward command post. 25th Infantry Division Association.
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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