73rd Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 73rd Infantry Regiment was part of the Army's twentieth-century regimental pool, a system designed to support wartime expansion and later preserve historical continuity through redesignation. Its role in Army history is tied to that larger organizational purpose.
Although not one of the most publicly prominent infantry lineages, it represents the many units that made large wartime forces possible and whose identities were retained even after force reductions.
The 73rd Infantry is therefore a useful example of the Army's institutional depth and historical record-keeping in the modern era.
Battalion Page
A dedicated battalion subpage now collects the regiment's known battalion icons and short battalion sketches for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions. Open the 73rd Infantry Regiment Battalions page.