25th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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1 History
2 Campaigns
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The first unit to carry this designation was formed June 26, 1812 and disbanded March 3, 1815. The unit may have participated in 3 battles of the War of 1812: Chrystler's Fields, Upper Canada, November 11, 1813; Chippewa Falls, U. C., July 5, 1814, and Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane) U. C., July 25, 1814.

On July 28, 1866, the 2d Battalion of the 16th Infantry was renamed to the 25th Regiment, but was merged into the 18th Regiment on March 3, 1869.

A 25th Infantry Regiment (one of the Buffalo Soldier regiments) was once again organized on 1 November 1869 from the 39th and 40st Infantry Regiments. All the enlisted soldiers were black, either veterans of the U.S. Colored Troops or freed slaves.

In World war II the 25th Infantry Regiment (Colored) was an organic component of the 93rd Infantry Division (Colored) and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The Regiment departed San Fransisco on January 24, 1944 and arrived on Guadalcanal in echelons between February 7 and March 5, 1944. From there the regiment was transferred to Bougainville and attached to the Americal Division to take part in offensive operations against Japanese forces on that island in April and May of the same year. From May 26 to June 21 the regiment was stationed on the Green Islands where it received further training and was employed for the construction of defensive fortifications and installations. From November 10, 1944 to March 30, 1945 the 25th Infantry Regiment was involved in defensive actions around Finschafen New Guinea. The regiment's final transfer during WWII was to Morotai Island where it arrived by April 12, 1945 where it once again participated in offensive operations until the end of the war. For World War II the 25th Infantry Regiment (Colored) received Campaign Credit for the Northern Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea. The Regiment was inactivated at Camp Stoneman California on February 3, 1946.