Combat Command B, Task Force K 23d Armd Engr Bn, 2d*Plat, Co B , 33d Armd Regiment, 1st Bn and 3d Plat, Rcn Co, 36th Armd Inf Regiment, Co F Maintenance Detachment Medical Detachment (Attached nondivisional unit is listed in par. 4a.) (Atchd to 9th Inf Div)
CITED IN THE ORDER OF THE DAY of the Belgian Army, by Decree No. 1391, 20 November 1945, by Charles, Prince of Belgium, Regent of the Kingdom, with the following citation: Operating under the command of the VII U. S. Army Corps, the 9th Infantry Division of the United States, and attached units, crossed the Belgian border and during the period from 3 to 13 September 1944, defeated the German Army in a decisive manner, in the sector of Florennes-Namur-Dinant-Givet, liberating all the Belgian territory included in this zone. During that time also, the passage of the Meuse was forced at Dinant and they advanced on the Huy-Theux axis. The division and attached units then pushed back the enemy beyond the German border to within the Siegfried fortifications.
BELGIAN FOURRAGERE (1940), awarded under Decree No. 1391, 20 November 1945, by Charles, Prince of Belgium, Regent of the Kingdom.