5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 February 2009
5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 18 June 1861 in the Regular Army as Battery H, 5th Regiment of Artillery
Organized 4 July 1861 at Fort Greble, Pennsylvania
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 54th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 54th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 3 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort Wadsworth [New York]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 6th Company, Coast Defenses of Southern New York
Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 54th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 5th Coast Artillery, and inactivated in the Coast Defenses of Southern New York
Disbanded 26 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 214th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun
Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit redesignated as Battery A, 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Redesignated 13 March 1952 as Battery A, 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Activated 16 April 1952 in Korea
Inactivated 20 December 1954 in Korea
Redesignated 23 May 1955 as Battery A, 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion
Activated 1 June 1955 at Fort Banks, Massachusetts
Redesignated 1 November 1956 as Battery C, 605th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion
Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Nahant, Massachusetts
Redesignated 6 April 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery;
concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 94th Infantry Division
(organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 1 May 1959 with Headquarters at Boston, Massachusetts
(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery consolidated 26 August 1960 with Battery
E, 5th Field Artillery [organized in 1898], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th
Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery)
Reorganized and redesignated 7 January 1963 as the 5th Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery, relieved from assignment to the
94th Infantry Division, and assigned to the 187th Infantry Brigade
Location of Headquarters changed 22 March 1963 to Roslindale, Massachusetts
Redesignated 31 January 1968 as the 5th Battalion, 5th Artillery
Redesignated (less former Battery E, 5th Field Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery;
concurrently inactivated at Roslindale, Massachusetts, and relieved from assignment to the 187th Infantry Brigade (former
Battery E, 5th Field Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 5th Battalion, 5th Field Artillery -
hereafter separate lineage)
Withdrawn 16 November 1988 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently assigned to the 2d Infantry
Division and activated in Korea
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
ANNEX
Constituted 5 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 504th Coast Artillery
Activated 1 July 1942 at Camp Hulen, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 20 January 1943 as Battery A, 214th Coast Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 13 November 1943 as Battery A, 214th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Inactivated 12 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Civil War: Peninsula; *Shiloh; Manassas; Antietam; Fredericksburg; *Murfreesborough; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; *Chickamauga; *Chattanooga; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Shenandoah; Appomattox; *Kentucky 1862; *Mississippi 1862; *Tennessee 1862; *Tennessee 1863; *Tennessee 1864; Virginia 1862; Virginia 1863; Virginia 1864
World War II: Tunisia; *Sicily; *Naples-Foggia; Anzio; *Rome-Arno; *Southern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Korean War: *Second Korean Winter; *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; *Third Korean Winter; *Korea, Summer 1953
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF KOREA
Battery B additionally entitled to:
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ APR-DEC 2007