Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 October 2008
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Lineage
Organized 17 May 1918 in the Regular Army at Fort Worden, Washington as the 69th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Demobilized 5 March 1919 at Camp Eustis, Virginia
Reconstituted 16 October 1936 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 69th Coast Artillery (constituted 22 January 1926 in the Regular Army and activated 1 February 1930 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland), and consolidated unit designated as the 69th Coast Artillery
Regiment broken up 10 September 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
(1st Battalion as the 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion; 2d Battalion as the 529th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion; 3d Battalion as the 249th Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion - hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Group, inactivated 5 June 1948 on Saipan
Activated 1 July 1955 in Germany
Inactivated 1 November 1957 in Germany
Redesignated 1 April 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Artillery Group, and activated in Germany
Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Group
Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 1983 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Streamer without inscription
World War II: Western Pacific
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER
Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996