50th COAT OF ARMS SHIELD: Argent, on a pale wavy azure a dolphin hauriant embowed of the field; on a conton of the second the totem pole of the 23rd Infantry proper.
CREST: On a wreath of the colors an eagle's head erased sable beaked and langued gules.
MOTTO: Play the Game.
SYMBOLISM: The regiment was originally organized at Syracuse, New York, with personnel from the 23rd Infantry. The shield is in the former and present colors of the Infantry (white and blue). The dolphin is the device of Syracuse, and the totem pole in the canton is taken from the crest of the 23rd Infantry. The pale with wavy edges indicates the regiment's occupation duty in the Rhine Province after World War I. At the time of the armistice on 11 November 1918 the 50th had been under orders for Silesia. The crest is the eagle's head of these two provinces.
DISTINCTIVE INSIGNIA: The distinctive insignia is the shield and motto of the coat of arms.
LINEAGE Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company C, 50th Infantry. Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, NY. (50th Infantry assigned 31 July 1918 to the 20th Division; relieved 28 February 1919 from assignment to the 20th Division.) Inactivated 31 December 1921 in Germany. Demobilized 31 July 1922. Reconstituted 8 January 1942 in the Regular Army as Company C, 50th Armored Infantry, an element of the 6th Armored Division. Activated 15 February 1942 at Ft. Knox, KY. Reorganized and re designated 20 September 1943 as Company C, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 6th Armored Division. Inactivated 19 September 1945 at Camp Shanks, NY. Activated 5 September 1950 at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Ft. Leonard Wood. MO. Re designated 25 February 1958 as Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 3rd Armored Rifle Battalion, 50th Infantry and relieved from assignment to the 6th Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted). Battalion activated 1 April 1958 in Germany. Inactivated 15 July 1962 in Germany.
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
*Normandy
*Northern France
*Rhineland
*Ardennes-Alsace
*Central Europe