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The 16th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. In its one and only combat operation, the 16th Armored Division liberated the city of Plzeň in western Czechoslovakia (today the Czech Republic), an operation that influenced the landscape of post-war Europe. [1]
The XVI Corps was authorized by the National Defense Act of 1920 and was to be composed of units of the Organized Reserve located primarily in the Sixth Corps Area.The headquarters and headquarters company were constituted on 29 July 1921 in the Regular Army, allotted to the Sixth Corps Area, and assigned to the Fifth Army.
The 16th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army.The regiment served with the 4th Division in World War II and with the 4th and 8th Divisions between the World Wars.
The 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery battalion assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.Carrying the lineage of Battery C, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, the battalion carries campaign streamers from World War I, World War II, and Vietnam, and has served with the 4th Infantry Division and 8th Infantry Division.
The star from the flag of French Morocco represents service in that area during World War II. The inverted chevron symbolizes the battalion's spearheading of armored engineer activity in World War II. Background: The Distinctive Unit Insignia was originally approved for the 16th Armored Engineer Battalion on 25 April 1952.
The 1st through 25th Infantry Divisions, excepting the 10th Mountain Division, were raised in the Regular Army or the Army of the United States prior to American involvement in World War II. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated.
The battalion is assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Company C earned the Combat Infantry Streamer.
The Soviet 22nd Army made good progress in the initial assault. These attacks greatly diminished the 16th Army. It, along with the 18th Army was cut off in the Courland Peninsula when the Soviets launched their summer and autumn offensives of 1944. It stayed trapped there in the Courland Pocket as part of Army Group Courland until