1st Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 November 1996
1st Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Organized in 1799 as Captain John Lillie's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain George Izard's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in June 1803 as Captain Howell Cobb's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 1 February 1806 as Captain William Yates' Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in 1807 as Captain Addison B. Armistead's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Reorganized and redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain Addison B. Armistead's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1814 as a company in the Corps of Artillery
Redesignated 17 May 1815 as a company in the Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 21 August 1816 as Company I, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
Consolidated 1 June 1821 with Company I, Regiment of Light Artillery (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Company E, 3d Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 28th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 28th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 12 July 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Rosecrans [California]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of San Diego
Consolidated 13 October 1919 with the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Diego (see ANNEX 2), and consolidated unit designated as the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of San Diego
Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 28th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1921 as Battery E, 3d Coast Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 18 October 1944 as Battery A, 520th Coast Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 1 December 1944 as Battery A, 3d Coast Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1945 as Battery B, Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles
Inactivated 30 June 1946 at Fort MacArthur, California
Consolidated 20 January 1950 with Battery A, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX 3), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 3d Infantry Division
Redesignated 15 April 1953 as Battery A, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
Consolidated 1 January 1960 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 3d Artillery (active) (organized in 1794), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 3d Artillery, an element of the 2d Armored Division (organic elements constituted 21 June 1957 and activated 1 July 1957)
Redesignated 1 December 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 3d Artillery
Redesignated (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 3d Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery; concurrently inactivated in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 2d Armored Division (former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 3d Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 3d Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
1st Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery, activated 10 July 1972 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Assigned 4 December 1972 to the 101st Airborne Division
Inactivated 16 March 1988 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
Assigned 16 July 1989 to the 4th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
Relieved 15 March 1996 from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
ANNEX 1
Organized in 1813 in the Regular Army at Greenbush, New York, as Captain George W. Melven's Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery
Redesignated in 1815 as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Towson's Company of Light Artillery (under the command of 2d Lieutenant George E. Wells), Regiment of Light Artillery
Redesignated in 1815 as Captain Henry K. Craig's Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery
Redesignated 22 May 1816 as Company I, Regiment of Light Artillery
ANNEX 2
Organized 23 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 4th Company, Fort Rosecrans [California]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 4th Company, Coast Defenses of San Diego
Redesignated 1 January 1918 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Diego
ANNEX 3
Constituted 6 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 534th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 15 July 1942 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 12 December 1943 as Battery A, 534th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Inactivated 19 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
Redesignated 9 December 1948 as Battery A, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army
Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas
(3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion assigned 22 November 1949 to the 3d Infantry Division)
1st Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
War of 1812: *Canada
Indian Wars: *Seminoles; Washington 1858
Mexican War: Palo Alto; Resaca de la Palma; Monterey; Buena Vista; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; Contreras; Churubusco; Molino del Rey; Chapultepec; *Tamaulipas 1846; Puebla 1847
Civil War: *Bull Run; Peninsula; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; *Petersburg; Shenandoah; South Carolina 1862; South Carolina 1863; Mississippi 1863; Tennessee 1863; Tennessee 1864; Virginia 1863; Virginia 1864; Florida 1864; North Carolina 1865
War with Spain: Manila
World War II: *Naples-Foggia (with arrowhead); *Anzio (with arrowhead); *Rome-Arno; *Southern France (with arrowhead); North Apennines; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe; Po Valley
Korean War: *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
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER
*Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
*Republic of Korean Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE