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Constituted 2 March 1899 in the Regular Army as Battery O, 1st Regiment of Artillery, and organized at New Orleans, Louisiana
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery Corps Redesignated 3 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort H.G. Wright [New York] Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1917 as Battery E, 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps Reorganized and redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery E, 52d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) Reorganized and redesignated 26 March 1918 as the 1st Battery, Howitzer Regiment, 30th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps Reorganized and redesignated 7 August 1918 as Battery E, 44th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) Inactivated 31 August 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina (Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924) Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 44th Coast Artillery Redesignated 13 January 1941 as Battery E, 54th Coast Artillery Activated 10 February 1941 at Camp Wallace, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1944 as Battery A, 607th Coast Artillery Battalion Disbanded 31 July 1944 at Camp Rucker, Alabama Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Infantry Division Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 1 September 1958 in Germany Inactivated 10 August 1960 in Germany Redesignated 30 December 1965 as the 1st Battalion, 44th Artillery Activated 1 March 1966 at Fort Bliss, Texas Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Inactivated 30 June 1980 in Korea Assigned 16 March 1988 to the 9th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 16 February 1991 as Battery E, 44th Air Defense Artillery; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division and assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade (remainder of battalion inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington) Battery E, 44th Air Defense Artillery, relieved 16 July 1992 from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade Inactivated 15 February 1994 at Fort Lewis, Washington Redesignated 16 January 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery; battalion concurrently assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Hood, Texas ANNEX Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery D, 47th Field Artillery Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Reorganized and redesignated 17 December 1941 as Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Motorized Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division) Inactivated 18 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina Activated 15 January 1947 at Fort Ord, California 1st Battalion 44th Air Defense Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: * Champagne-Marne; * St. Mihiel; * Lorraine 1918; Alsace 1918; * Champagne 1918 World War II: * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe; Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead); Northern Solomons; Eastern Mandates; Leyte; Ryukyus Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Counteroffensive; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Vietnam: * Counteroffensive, Phase II; * Counteroffensive, Phase III; * Tet Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase IV; * Counteroffensive, Phase V; * Counteroffensive, Phase VI; * Tet 69/Counteroffensive; * Summer-Fall 1969; * Winter-Spring 1970; * Sanctuary Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase VII; * Consolidation I; * Consolidation II Decorations * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BEACHES OF NORMANDY * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ST. LO * Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 * Valorous Unit Award for QUANG TRI-THUA THIEN * Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for KOREA 1978-1980 * Belgian Fourragere 1940 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1971 Battery A additionally entitled to: Meritorious Unit Commendation (Navy) for VIETNAM 1968 |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |