73rd Cavalry Regiment (United States) - Lineage

Lineage

Constituted 13 January 1941 in the regular army as the 76th Tank Battalion

• Redesignated 8 May 1941 as the 756th Tank Battalion

Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Lewis Washington

• Inactivated 8 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer New Jersey

Activated 1 August 1948 at Fort Benning, Georgia.

• Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1948 as the 756th Heavy Tank Battalion, and assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division (United States)
• Reorganized and redesignated 14 July 1950 as the 73d Tank Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division

Assigned 10 November 1951 to the 7th Infantry Division (United States)

• Inactivated 1 July 1957 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division.

Reorganized and redesignated 2 October 1962 as the 73d Armor a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.

• withdrawn 16 January 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System, and Reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System, with headquarters at Fort Bragg North Carolina.