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1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery(369 total words in this text)(1990 Reads)  (9th Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 4th Division) Activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington (9th Field Artillery relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division]) Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 9th Field Artillery Battalion (9th Field Artillery Battalion relieved 1 September 1950 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; reassigned 17 January 1951 to the 3d Infantry Division) Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Artillery, and remained assigned to the 3d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1960 as the 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 9th Artillery Reorganized and redesignated 3 June 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Artillery Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Inactivated 10 July 1972 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Activated 17 January 1986 in Germany Inactivated 30 June 1991 in Germany Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 3d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia 1st Battalion 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 Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR *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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