SOURCE:		Under the Southern Cross 

                    by Francis D. Cronin

		
Presidential Unit Citation (Navy)

dated 4 February 1943

for action on August 7-9, 1942 through December 9, 1942

on Tulagi, Gavutu, Tanambogo, Florida, and Guadalcanal; British Solomon Islands 
 
Awarded to the following units

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Americal Division

Headquarters, Division Artillery, Americal Division

Band II, Americal Division

Detachment, 26th Signal Company

57th Engineer Combat Battalion

121st Medical Battalion

125th Quartermaster Company (redesignated from parts of 101st Quartermaster Regt., 30 Apr 43

Detachment, 132nd Infantry Regiment

164th Infantry Regiment

182nd Infantry Regiment (less Band and 3d Battalion)

Headquarters Battery, Service Battery, Medical Detachment, Batteries A, B, and C, 245th Field Artillery Battalion

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Service Battery, Medical Detachment, Batteries A, B, and C, Provisional Battery K, and Medical Detachment Provisional Battery K, 246th Field Artillery Battalion

721st Ordnance Light Maintenance Company (activated 1 May 43 with personnel from 3465th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company)




Distinguished Unit Citation

awarded to Company E, 182nd Infantry Regiment

for action on March 10-11, 1944

at Hill 260, Bougainville, Solomon Islands