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The 395th Infantry Regiment was a unit of the United States 99th Infantry Division. It was organized with the rest of the 99th on 16 November 1942 at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. During the Battle of the Bulge, the regiment—at times virtually surrounded by Germans—was one of the few units that did not yield ground to the attacking Germans. On at least six occasions they called in artillery strikes on or directly in front of their own positions. Their success in defending Höfen resulted in the 395th Infantry Regiment being repeatedly assigned to other divisions for difficult assignments during the remainder of the war, earning them the sobriquet, ''Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards''. The unit was inactivated after World War II, then became a reserve unit, and was redesignated as the 395th Regiment in 1999. ==Lineage== * Activated: 16 November 1942 * Overseas: 30 September 1944 * Campaigns: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe * Days of combat: 151 * Unit Awards: Presidential Unit Citations – 2 * Individual Awards: * * Medal of Honor – 1 * * Distinguished Service Cross (United States) – 2 * * * Commanders: Lt. Col. McClernand Butler (1 November 1942 – 30 April 1945); Lt. Col. J. A. Gallagher (1 May 1945 – 29 September 1945) * Returned to U.S.: July 1945 * Inactivated: 29 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lineage And Honors Information, 395th Regiment Lineage )〕 * Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve * Relieved 29 October 1998 from assignment to the 99th Infantry Division * Redesignated 17 October 1999 as the 395th Regiment and reorganized to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 75th Division (Training Support); 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions concurrently allotted to the Regular Army〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=3d Battalion (TS)(AR) 395th Regiment )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「395th Infantry Regiment (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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