327th Infantry Regiment (United States) - Lineage

Lineage

• Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 327th Infantry and assigned to the 82d Division
• Organized 17 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, at Augusta, Georgia.
• Demobilized 26 May 1919 at Camp Upton, at Yaphank, New York.
• Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 327th Infantry and assigned to the 82d Division
• Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Greenville, South Carolina.
• Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, at Forest Hill, Louisiana.
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as the 327th Glider Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 82d Division and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division
• (3d Battalion consolidated 6 April 1945 with the 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry)
• Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France
• (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
• Redesignated 18 June 1948 as the 516th Airborne Infantry
• Withdrawn 25 June 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
• (1st Battalion inactivated 1 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, at Morgenfield, Kentucky)
• Regiment (less 1st Battalion) inactivated 22 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Regiment activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Relieved 27 April 1954 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
• Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, at Columbia, South Carolina.
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1956 as the 327th Airborne Infantry and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division
• Relieved 25 April 1957 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 327th Infantry, a parent regiment under the U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System
• Withdrawn 21 January 1983 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System