Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Infantry Division Artillery

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Constituted 12 November 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 3d Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 3d Division

Organized 26 November 1917 at Camp Stanley, Texas

Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Reconstituted 1 October 1940 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Division Artillery, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Infantry Division Artillery

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
3d Infantry Division Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918

World War II: Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR

French Croix de Guerre with Palm for COLMAR

French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE

Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA

  
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