Captain Nelson Holderman, a member of the 160th Regiment, was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Lost Battalion action.

[6] The 160th Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 24 March 1919 on the troopship USS Matsonia and was demobilized on 7 May 1919 at Camp Kearny, California.

The regimental headquarters was organized 31 January 1922 and federally recognized at Los Angeles, California.

The regiment trained there for over a year as part of the 40th Division before relocating to Fort Lewis, Washington, on 29 April 1942.

[citation needed] The regiment trained in jungle warfare there for over a year before being moved forward during January 1944 to the Solomon Islands.

[citation needed] Lt. Col. Ryoichi Tozuka, the commander of the Imperial Japanese Army in Panay Island, signed the document of surrender at Cabatuan Airfield,[9] located in Cabatuan, Iloilo, Panay Island, Philippines, on 2 September 1945, the same day as the surrender signing in Japan aboard the U.S.S.

[12] The 160th Regiment was called up for active duty in September 1950 a couple months after the Korean War began.

The 160th served for the last fifteen months of combat in Korea and then returned to California with the 40th in June 1954 and was released from Federal service.