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Subordinate Units:
50th Signal Battalion
51st Signal Battalion
327th Signal Battalion
25th Signal Battalion
426th Signal Battalion
514th Signal Company (LRE)
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51st Signal Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 April 2007
51st Signal Battalion Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 5th Telegraph
Battalion, Signal Corps
Activated 12 July 1917 at Monmouth Park, New Jersey
Redesignated 1 October 1917 as the 55th Telegraph Battalion,
Signal Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 18 March 1921 as the 51st Signal
Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1945 as the 51st Signal
Operation Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 8 September 1950 as the 51st Signal
Battalion, Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1955 as the 51st Signal
Battalion
51st Signal Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Lorraine 1918; St.
Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne
World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead);
Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN
Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive;
UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third
Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi
Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1953-1954
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953
Additional Decorations
Company B additionally entitled to:
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for IRAQ
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1952
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