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The 56th Signal battalion was constituted in October 1927. During WW II, units such as the 56th provided communications for U.S. Army Corps Headquarters - this included both radio and telephone line hook-ups. In July 1942, the unit left the United States for Scotland. The men in the unit engaged in training exercises in Northern Ireland, and in November 1942 the unit traveled to England, where they remained until the D-Day invasion. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the men of the 56th Signal Battalion landed at Omaha Beach, on the Normandy coast of France. From there the unit supported combat operations in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and finally Czechoslovakia.

Constituted 8 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 43d Signal Construction Battalion and activated at Camp Crowder, Missouri. Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1944 as the 43d Signal Heavy Construction Battalion. Inactivated 28 May 1946 in Germany.Redesignated 1 August 1966 as the 43d Signal Battalion; concurrently allotted to the Regular Army and activated in Vietnam. (Companies A, B, C, D, and E inactivated 1 March 1970 in Vietnam.) Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 43d Signal Battalion, inactivated 30 May 1971 in Vietnam. Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 43d Signal Battalion, activated 1 July 1974 in Germany. The Battalion deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.