Colonel Harry A. The 3rd Battalion suffered a serious setback when its L Company commander was killed and … World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). It is there, in Lammersdorf, that Charlies ‘War will end. He is appointed Executive Officer of Dog Company (Heavy Weapons Company) of 39th Infantry. My work lives through you. The fleur-de-lis is from the coat of arms of Soissons, a town in France recaptured by the 39th Regiment in 1918. He ends his ROTC training in May 1942 as 2nd Lieutenant, and is first suggested to join the Finance Corps. For his very first command, he is responsible for five 2nd Lieutenants and two hundred men, as a supply company commander attached to 1st Highlander Regiment under British command. The Army was reduced in size in 1869, and the 39th and 40th were consolidated into the 25th Infantry Regiment. He is evacuated in Spa, Belgium. There was a 39th United States Infantry raised in Tennessee for service in the War of 1812. [2]. The Fighting Falcons of the 39th became the first unit of United States combat troops to set foot on foreign soil when they stormed the beaches of Algiers in November 1942. The 39th Infantry Regiment is a parent regiment in the United States Army. United States Air Force, American Revolutionary War, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Cold War, Battle of Stalingrad, Nazi Germany, Battle of the Atlantic, Second Sino-Japanese War, Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, United States, Republican Party (United States), Baseball, Nashville, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States Army, United States, Infantry Branch (United States), 39th Infantry Regiment (United States), 41st Infantry Regiment (United States), United States Army, Korean War, World War I, World War II, Missouri, Normandy, Manche, Atlantic Wall, Le Havre, USS Nevada (BB-36), Sicily, South Carolina, Tunisia, Belgium, Medal of Honor, United States Army, World War I, World War II, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein,