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Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 9th Field Artillery
Organized 6 August 1916 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (1st and 2d Battalions activated 1 October 1922 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, respectively; 2d Battalion inactivated 31 December 1922 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma) Assigned 24 March 1923 to the 7th Division Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 9th Division (1st Battalion consolidated 15 September 1927 with the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery, and consolidated unit designated as the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage; new 1st Battalion concurrently constituted) Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 4th Division (3d Battalion concurrently constituted) (1st Battalion activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington) Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division) (2d Battalion activated 1 May-12 October 1939 at Fort Lewis, Washington) Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 9th Field Artillery Battalion Relieved 1 September 1950 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Reassigned 17 January 1951 to the 3d Infantry Division Relieved 1 July 1957 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 9th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 9th Field Artillery Withdrawn 17 January 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 9th Field Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; 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 Vietnam: Counteroffensive; 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 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR Valorous Unit Award for QUANG NGAI PROVINCE Army Superior Unit Award for 1986 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II 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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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |