101st Infantry Battalion

January 2025 January 2025 101st Infantry Battalion July 1942 – 16 June 1943 United States of America United States Army Separate infantry battalion Lt. Col Edward Conrad None The 101st Infantry Battalion (Separate) was an independent battalion on the US Army designed to be formed of Austrian-Americans and Austrian Nationals resident in the United States.p.156 Brook-Shepherd, Gordon Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg Continuum International Publishing Group, 30/12/2003 History In 1942 the United States created several separate infantry battalions composed of Americans of ethnic descent or citizens of certain nations who were not yet American citizens. Amongst them were the 99th Infantry Battalion of Norwegian-Americans, the 100th Infantry Battalion of Japanese-Americans, and the 122nd Infantry Battalion of Greek-Americans.p.14 Stanton, Shelby L. Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II Presidio, 1984 A Polish unit was also proposed but never created.http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/pas/66.2/szymczak.html Robert Szymczak | the Battalion That Never Was: Dr. Teofil Starzynski, the OSS, and the Polish American Special Service Unit Project, 1942 | Polish American Studies, 66.2 | the History Cooperative 2012-01-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111003195400/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/pas/66.2/szymczak.html 2011-10-03 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the wife of the last Emperor of Austria supposedly lobbied the American government for such a unit following President Franklin D. Roosevelt's officially declared restoration of an independent Austria to be an American war aim. Three of her sons Carl, Rudolf and Felix von Habsburg served in the unit that served at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.http://www.avalanchepress.com/Austrian101st.php Avalanche Press Werner von Trapp also served in the Battalion.Camp Atterbury - Camp Crier 14 May 1943 The battalion was disbanded on 16 June 1943. Notes External links IndianaMilitary.org's webpage on the Austrian Battalion, made by James D. West. Category:Infantry battalions of the United States Army Category:Austrian-American history Category:Military units and formations established in 1942 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1943 Category:American organizations established in 1942 Category:1943 disestablishments in the United States