The 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, previously the 117th Infantry Regiment, is an armored brigade combat team of the Tennessee Army National Guard with headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the
Members of the regiment during a parade in Kyiv, August 2018.
An army jeep with commander Walter Morris Johnson of the 117th Regiment of the US Army 30th Division ("Old Hickory") arrives in Wycker Brugstraat near the Meuse bridge in Maastricht, Netherlands, 13 September 1944.
Presidential Unit Citation awarded to E Company, 117th Infantry for its actions at Aachen on 16 October 1944
278th soldiers at memorial service for comrades killed in Iraq.
Battle of the Bulge
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The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and referred to by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War,
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…Hitler Division. This was the second time the 1st SS Adolf Hitler Division faced the 117th Infantry Regiment and the 30th Infantry Division during the Ardennes Offensive in the winter of 1944–45. The 1st SS Adolf Hitler Division, the main effort of the 1st SS Corps and the spearhead of the Sixth Panzer Army, gave up on…
American soldiers of the 117th Infantry Regiment, Tennessee National Guard, part of the 30th Infantry Division, move past a destroyed American M5A1 "Stuart" tank on their advance to recapture the town of St. Vith during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945.
American troops marching through a snowy field under mist near Krinkelt, 1944
Sepp Dietrich led the Sixth Panzer Army in the northernmost attack route.
Scene of the Malmedy massacre