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Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 17th Field Artillery
Organized 6 June 1917 at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin (17th Field Artillery assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division; relieved 18 December 1920 from assignment to the 2d Division; assigned 22 July 1929 to the 1st Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 1st Division and assigned to the 2d Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division) Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1944 as Battery A, 17th Field Artillery Battalion Inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 17th Field Artillery (organic elements constituted 24 April 1958 and activated 1 June 1958) Redesignated 20 June 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 17th Artillery Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 17th Field Artillery 1st Battalion 17th Field Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: *Aisne; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918; *Ile de France 1918 World War II: *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Naples-Foggia; *Rome-Arno; *Southern France; *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 Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE *French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere *French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II for ROME-ARNO *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1952 |
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Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1864: General Grant bans the trading of prisoners. 1864: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina, in an attempt to recapture ports lost to the Union two years before. 1941: The Yugoslav army, encircled in Bosnia, surrenders to Germany and signs a formal capitulation in Belgrade. 1945: U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany. 1951: Operation DAUNTLESS continued to advance against weakened communist resistance in the 24th and 25th Infantry Division zones. 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. 1975: Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. |