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3d Battalion, 321st Field Artillery(684 total words in this text)(2647 Reads)  Organized 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Demobilized 26 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 5 June 1930 in the Organized Reserves and consolidated with Battery C, 321st Field Artillery (constituted in July 1923 in the Organized Reserves as Battery C, 452d Field Artillery, and organized in Georgia; redesignated 5 October 1929 as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division); consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division) Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery Battalion Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery C, 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division Disbanded 4 September 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reconstituted 1 March 1957 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1957 as Battery C, 321st Artillery Relieved 21 January 1964 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division Inactivated 3 February 1964 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery Redesignated 28 February 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 321st Field Artillery; Headquarters concurrently transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Inactivated 15 January 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Withdrawn 16 January 1996 from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) ANNEX Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as part of the 307th Ammunition Train, an element of the 82d Division Organized in October 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Demobilized 23 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as part of the 307th Ammunition Train, an element of the 82d Division Organized in January 1922 at Newberry, South Carolina Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery B, 907th Field Artillery Battalion Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery B, 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division Inactivated 30 November 1945 in Germany (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps) Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Battery C, 518th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion (518th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion withdrawn 25 June 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army) Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Inactivated 1 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division 3d Battalion 321st Field Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918 World War II: *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Rhineland (with arrowhead); *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BASTOGNE *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY *Belgian Fourragere 1940 *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM AND GERMANY *Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm for BASTOGNE; cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Bastogne *Netherlands Orange Lanyard |
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The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
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