The 628th Tank Battalion was an armored battalion of the United States Army active during the

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, formed in 1946 and merged into the

103rd Armor Regiment The 103rd Armor Regiment is an armored regiment in the Pennsylvania National Guard first formed in 1941. Its legacy unit, 3rd Battalion, 103rd Armor, is a subordinate command of the 55th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division.The D ...

in 1959. It was formed in May 1946 in the Pennsylvania National Guard by redesignating the

628th Tank Destroyer Battalion The 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion was a tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army active during the Second World War. It was redesignated the 628th Tank Battalion after the end of the war, and today exists as the 103rd Armor Regiment. ...

, then organized in May 1949 as part of the 28th Infantry Division. The battalion, along with the rest of the 28th Infantry Division, was activated for service due to the Korean War in September 1950; after training, the division was placed under the command of Seventh Army and stationed in West Germany. It was stood down in June 1954, and the battalion returned to the National Guard. In 1959, under the new Combat Arms Regimental System, the battalion joined with elements of the

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and the 108th and 166th Field Artillery Battalions to form the

References

*''Armor-Cavalry Regiments: Army National Guard Lineage'', by Jeffrey Lynn Pope & Leonid E. Kondratiuk. DIANE Publishing. 1995.
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