UNIT CAMPAIGNS DISTINGUISHED UNIT MERITORIOUS UNIT REMARKS

CITATION (DUC) COMMENDATION (MUC)

106th Infantry Division Ardennes Alsace * -- 106th DIV Band Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe * 16/12/1944-13/02/1945 (Less Band)
Rhineland 106th MP Platoon 02/05/1945-04/09/1945
15/12/1944-12/02/1945 Occupation Credit GERMANY
(*)Components eligible: (Band only)
Band, HQ & HQ Co, MP 02/05/1945-31/10/1945
Platoon, HQ&HQ Btry
DIVART
106th QM Company Ardennes Alsace -- 01/12/1944-29/02/1945 Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe 20/05/1945-04/09/1945
Rhineland
106th RECON Troop Ardennes Alsace -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Rhineland 04/09/1945-18/09/1945
106th SIGNAL Company Ardennes Alsace -- 01/02/1945-01/04/1945 Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe 20/05/1945-04/09/1945
Rhineland
806th ORDNANCE Company Ardennes Alsace -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe 20/05/1945-18/09/1945
Northern France
Rhineland
331st MEDICAL Battalion Ardennes Alsace -- 12/12/1944-12/02/1945 Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe * 20/05/1945-18/09/1945
Northern France 331/C CITATION Order of the
Rhineland Day of the Belgian Army,
20/01/1945-29/01/1945
(*) Less Detachment
168th ENGINEER Battalion Ardennes Alsace 17/12/1944-23/12/1944 -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe 02/05/1945-04/07/1945
Normandy CITATION Order of the Day
Northern France of the Belgian Army
Rhineland 31/12/1944

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81st ENGINEER Battalion Ardennes Alsace 16/12/1944-23/12/1944 -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Central Europe 20/05/1945-18/09/1945
Northern France CITATION Order of the Day of
Rhineland the Belgian Army
16/12/1944-31/12/1944
2nd CITATION
20/01/1945-29/01/1945
422nd INFANTRY Regiment Ardennes Alsace -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 05/07/1945-03/09/1945
Rhineland
423rd INFANTRY Regiment Ardennes Alsace (*)423/F 3rd Platoon -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 17/12/1944-23/12/1944 05/07/1945-18/09/1945
Rhineland CITATION Order of the Day of
the Belgian Army
16/12/1944-31/12/1944 (*)
424th INFANTRY Regiment Ardennes Alsace -- 424/SV Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 16/12/1944-15/03/1945 20/05/1945-18/09/1945
Rhineland Belgian Fourragere
16/12/1944-31/12/1944
20/01/1945-29/01/1945
3rd INFANTRY Regiment Northern France -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
20/05/1945-31/10/1945
159th INFANTRY Regiment Aleutian Islands -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 02/05/1945-04/09/1945
589th ARTILLERY Battalion Ardennes Alsace -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 05/07/1945-18/09/1945
Rhineland French Croix de Guerre
16/12/1944-23/12/1944
590th ARTILLERY Battalion Ardennes Alsace -- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
Northern France 05/07/1945-18/09/1945
Rhineland

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591st ARTILLERY Battalion Ardennes Alsace
Central Europe
Northern France
Rhineland
592nd ARTILLERY Battalion Ardennes Alsace
Central Europe
Northern France
Rhineland
401st ARTILLERY Battalion Central Europe
Northern France
627th ARTILLERY Battalion Central Europe
Northern France
-- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
20/05/1945-18/09/1945
Belgian Fourragere
16/12/1944-31/12/1945
29/01/1945
-- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
20/05/1945-18/09/1945
-- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
20/05/1945-31/10/1945
-- -- Occupation Credit GERMANY
20/05/1945-31/10/1945

CAMPAIGNS AND DATES

Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943 (Only 159th INF REGT)
Ardennes Alsace 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945
Central Europe 22 March 1945 – 11 May 1945
Normandy 6 June 1944 – 24 July 1944 (Only 168th ENG BN)
Northern France 25 July 1944 – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945

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(Source: Campaigns, World War II, GO 24 WD 47)

NORTHERN FRANCE CAMPAIGN

Combat zone
European Theater of Operations, exclusive of the land areas of the United Kingdom and Iceland.

Time limitation.
25 July to 14 September 1944.

ATTENTION!

Battle participation credit for this campaign may be awarded by the theater commander to units or
individuals who actually engaged the enemy after 14 September 1944 west of the Rhineland combat
zone.

RHINELAND CAMPAIGN

Combat zone
Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, and France east of the line: Franco-Belgian frontier to 4°
east longitude, thence south along that meridian to 47° north latitude, thence east along that parallel to
5° east longitude, thenee south along that meridian to the Mediterranean coast, except that the area of
the Ardennes-Alsace combat zone is excluded from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

Time limitation
15 September 1944 to 21 March 1945.

ARDENNES-ALSACE CAMPAIGN

Combat zone
Euskirchen, Eupen (inclusive), Liege (exclusive), east bank of the Meuse River to its intersection with
the Franco-Belgian border, thence south and east along this border to the western border of
Luxembourg, thence to Metz (inclusive), east bank of the Moselle River to Epinal (inclusive),
Strasbourg (inclusive).

Time limitation
16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN

Combat zone
The areas occupied by troops assigned to the European Theater of Operations, east of a line 10 miles
west of the Rhine River between Switzerland and the Waal River until 28 March 1945, and thereafter
east of the east bank of the Rhine.

Time limitation
22 March to 11 May 1945.