19th Infantry Regiment (United States)

1st Battalion

World War II

• Deployed forward from Hawaii on 1943-07-30.
• Regiment arrived in Australia on 1943-08-08,
• Regiment moved to Goodenough Island on 1944-01-26.
• Regiment assaulted Tanahmerah Bay, New Guinea on 1944-04-22.
• Regiment departed Humboldt Bay, New Guinea in stages between 1944-10-07 and 1944-10-12, and Assaulted Leyte Island in the Philippines on 1944-10-20.
• Regiment attached to the US 6th Army from 1944-11-20.
• Regiment assaulted Mindoro, Philippines on 1944-12-15.
• The Army attachment was changed from the 6th US Army to the 8th US Army on 1945-01-01.
• Regiment was relieved from attachment to 8th Army on 1945-02-01
• Regiment assaulted Romblon Island on 1945-03-11 and Simara Island on 1945-03-12, and Malabang, Mindanao on 1945-04-17.
• Regiment was at Davao, Mindanao on 1945-08-20.
• Regiment arrived in Japan for Occupation Duty on 1945-10-22, where they were active through 1946.

2nd Battalion

3d Battalion

• Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment.
• Organized May 1865 - September 1866 at Fort Wayne, Michigan; Newport Barracks, Kentucky; and Fort Columbus, New York
• Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1866 as the 37th Infantry Regiment.
• One-half of the 37th Infantry consolidated August–December 1869 with the 3d Infantry and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Infantry (remaining half of the 37th Infantry consolidated in June 1869 with the 5th Infantry and consolidated unit designated as the 5th Infantry — hereafter separate lineage).