47th Infantry Regiment (United States)

47th Infantry Regiment
Active1917 – present
Country United States
Branch United States Army
TypeInfantry basic training
SizeRegiment
Motto(s)Ex Virtute Honos (Honor Comes From Virtue)
EngagementsWorld War I
World War II
Vietnam War
Commanders
Current
commander
2d Bn – LTC Dennis W. Hall[1]
3d Bn – LTC Benjamin J. Horner[2]
Notable
commanders
Alexander Patch[3]
Edwin Randle[4][5]
George W. Smythe[6][7]
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

The 47th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army. Constituted in 1917 at Camp Syracuse, New York, the regiment fought in World War I, and was later inactivated in 1921. Remaining nominally inactive throughout the interwar period but manned with Organized Reserve personnel, the 47th Infantry was reactivated in 1940 and subsequently fought during World War II in North Africa, Sicily, and Western Europe, then was inactivated in 1946. During the Cold War, the regiment saw multiple activations and inactivations, with service both in the Regular Army and the Army Reserve; it fought in Vietnam. Ultimately it was reactivated as a training regiment, and as of 1999, it has been assigned to Fort Moore and consists of two active battalions.[8]

  1. ^ "Fort Moore | 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry Regiment". U.S. Army Fort Moore and The Maneuver Center of Excellence. United States Army. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Fort Benning | 3rd Battalion 47th Infantry Regiment". U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence. United States Army. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  3. ^ Bonn, Keith E. (2003). "Most Underrated General of World War II: Alexander Patch" (PDF). Association Newsletter. Retrieved 9 March 2019 – via George C. Marshall Foundation.
  4. ^ Atkinson, Rick (15 May 2007). An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy. Henry Holt and Company. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8050-8724-6.
  5. ^ Crew, Thomas E. (2007). Combat Loaded: Across the Pacific on the USS Tate. Texas A&M University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-60344-490-3.
  6. ^ Caddick-Adams, Peter (2015). Snow & Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45. Oxford University Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-19-933514-5.
  7. ^ Villahermosa, Gilberto N.; Bernan Assoc (2009). Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953. Government Printing Office. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-16-083324-3.
  8. ^ "3D Battalion 47th Infantry Regiment". Lineage And Honors Information. United States Army Center of Military History. 5 July 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2019.