Men and M47 Patton of 63d Tank Battalion, West Germany.
Constituted 3 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 745th Tank Battalion
Activated 15 August 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as the 745th Tank Battalion, Medium
Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 745th Tank Battalion
Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 14 September 1948 as the 63d Heavy Tank Battalion, allotted to the Regular Army, and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division
Activated 10 October 1948 in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1950 as the 63d Tank Battalion
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 63d Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Withdrawn 16 September 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor deployed in March of 1996 from Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany to Camp Able Sentry, Skopje, Macedonia. There, they participated in a United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) to monitor Macedonia's border with Serbia. The battalion returned to Germany in September of 1996, relieved by the 1st battalion 63rd Armor
2nd Battalion deployed from Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom II under the 1st Infantry Division from January 2004 till February 2005 at FOB Scunion near Baqubah, Iraq.
This article incorporates public domain material from 63rd Armor Lineage and Honors. United States Army Center of Military History.
