4th Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996
4th Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 4th Regiment of Artillery and organized from new and existing units with Headquarters at Pensacola, Florida
Regiment broken up 13 February 1901 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as separate numbered companies and batteries of Artillery Corps
Reconstituted 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 4th Coast Artillery
Activated (less Batteries B, E, and F) 18 August 1924 in the Canal Zone
(Battery C inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone; Batteries B, C, and F activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone; Battery E activated 1 February 1938 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone; Battery O activated 15 March 1940 in the Canal Zone; Batteries M and N activated 14 October 1940 in the Canal Zone; Battery L activated 27 January 1941 in the Canal Zone)
Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) disbanded 3 October 1944 in the Canal Zone
After 3 October 1944 the regiment underwent changes as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery,
reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters
Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Group
Reorganized and redesignated 2 January 1945 as Headquarters and Headquarters
Battery, Harbor Defenses of Balboa
Inactivated 15 January 1947 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
Consolidated 28 June 1950 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft
Artillery Group (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters
and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
Activated 1 September 1951 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska|
Inactivated 15 January 1958 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska
Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) reconstituted
12 October 1944 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 4th
Coast Artillery Battalion (constituted 3 October 1944 in the Army of the United
States) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 1 November 1944 in the Canal Zone
Disbanded (less Batteries A and D) 1 February 1946 in the Canal Zone (Batteries
A and D concurrently redesignated as Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa;
inactivated 15 January 1947 and 15 May 1950, respectively, in the Canal Zone)
4th Coast Artillery Battalion (less Batteries A and D) reconstituted 28 June
1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently battalion and Batteries A and D, Harbor
Defenses of Balboa, redesignated as the 4th Coast Artillery (less Headquarters
and Headquarters Battery)
Remainder of the 4th Coast Artillery reorganized 28 June 1950 as follows:
1st Battalion consolidated with the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery
Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated
as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Redesignated 31 July 1950 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 16 June 1957 in England
2d Battalion redesignated as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion
Redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Activated 8 May 1952 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Redesignated 1 May 1953 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Phantom Lake, Washington
3d Battalion redesignated as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion
Redesignated 1 April 1951 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and
activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Redesignated 3 August 1953 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 22 March 1955 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion
Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Niagara Falls, New York
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group; 4th and 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions; 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion; and the 4th Field Artillery Battalion (organized in 1907) consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1958 as the 4th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
4th Artillery (less former 4th Field Artillery Battalion) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 4th Air Defense Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former 4th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 4th Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
Withdrawn 13 September 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
ANNEX 1
Constituted 5 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Group
Activated 24 August 1942 at Camp Stewart, Georgia
Redesignated in the fall of 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
Disbanded 9 December 1944 in Italy
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army
ANNEX 2
Constituted 16 December 1940 in the Regular Army as the 3d Battalion, 95th Coast Artillery
Activated 17 April 1941 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
Reorganized and redesignated 12 December 1943 as the 866th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Inactivated 30 September 1946 in the Philippine Islands
Redesignated 13 October 1948 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas
4th Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
War of 1812: Louisiana 1815
Indian Wars: Creeks; Seminoles; Modocs; Little Big Horn; Nez Perces; Bannocks
Mexican War: Palo Alto; Resaca de la Palma; Monterey; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; Contreras; Chapultepec; Tamaulipas 1846
Civil War: Peninsula; Shiloh; Valley; Manassas; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Murfreesborough; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Shenandoah; Nashville; Appomattox; Virginia 1861; Virginia 1862; Virginia 1863; Virginia 1864; Virginia 1865; Mississippi 1862
World War II: American Theater, Streamer without inscription; Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Leyte; Ryukyus
Vietnam: 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; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I
Armed Forces Expeditions: Grenada
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967
Valorous Unit Award for SAIGON
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969
Army Superior Unit Award for 1987