The 308th Armored Cavalry Regiment (308th ACR) was a Minnesota-based reconnaissance unit of the United States Army Organized Reserve Corps, which briefly existed after World War II.
[1] The 308th's 1st Battalion was redesignated from the 315th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron.
The 315th traced its heritage back to the 815th Tank Destroyer Battalion, constituted on 25 March 1942 in the Army of the United States and activated on 11 May of that year at Camp Cooke, California.
It landed there on 30 March and fought in the New Guinea campaign, and was disbanded in New Guinea on 27 September,[2] after the Army began deactivating units unnecessary for jungle warfare.
The 308th ACR did not inherit the lineage of the prewar 308th Cavalry Regiment, and was not authorized a coat of arms or distinctive unit insignia.