The 1st Battalion, 64th Armor descended from the 78th Tank Battalion. activated on 13 January 1941 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

The Battalion was re-designated as the 758th Tank Battalion and was the first tank unit composed entirely of black soldiers.

One of these soldiers designed the unit crest, which is still worn by soldiers of the battalion - the rampant head of a black African elephant symbolizing the soldiers' pride in their heritage and their unit's mission of mobile, armored warfare.

The 758th served with distinction in the Italian campaign of World War II, where it earned the first three of the many campaign streamers on the battalion colors.

The battalion next saw action in Korea, where it fought under the colors of the 64th Heavy Tank Battalion.  There it participated in a total of eight separate campaigns and fought from the intervention of the Chinese Communist Forces in November 1950 until the Cease-Fire in 1953.

Following the Korean War, the 64th Heavy Tank Battalion was reorganized as the 64th Armor Regiment, a parent regiment under the Combined Arms Regimental System.

The 1st Battalion, 64th Armor was born at this time, and with its three sister battalions, helped to preserve freedom's frontier in the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1987, the colors were moved to Fort Stewart when 5th Battalion, 32nd Armor was re-designated as the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor.

In 1990, the battalion deployed with the 24th Infantry Division (Mech) as part of Operation Desert Shield.  During combat operations in Iraq, the battalion spearheaded the division attack against the forces of the Iraqi Republican Guard and advanced over 350 miles in only four days.  During this action, the unit earned its two campaign streamers: the Defense of Saudi Arabia and the Liberation of Kuwait.  Following the successful conclusion of the war, the battalion redeployed to Fort Stewart.

In October 1993, elements of the battalion deployed as part of Task Force 1-64AR to protect the United Nations Operation Somalia forces deployed to Africa for Operation Continue Hope.  The Task Force conducted force security missions in a hostile theater for six months before safely returning all soldiers home in March of 1994.

In September 2002, 1-64 Armor deployed to Kuwait in order to prepare for offensive operations.  In March of 2003, Task Force 1-64AR attacked across the border to liberate Iraq and force a regime change.

Task Force 1-64 led the Division into the heart of Baghdad in order to demonstrate American resolve, presence, and destroy the Hussein regime.

In January 2005, 1-64 Armor deployed to Baghdad, Iraq where the battalion immediately began combat operation Tissa Nissan.  The heroic actions of the Rogue Soldiers secured the most dangerous routes in Baghdad on a daily basis.  The battalion enabled the Iraqis to vote in two elections including the historic National Referendum which provided Iraq with its first democratic government in the country's history.