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Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 September 1996

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery Lineage

Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Expeditionary Division

Partially organized in June 1917 at Washington, D.C.; organization completed in August 1917 in France

Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland

Reconstituted 10 September 1940 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Division Artillery

Activated 1 October 1940 at Madison Barracks, New York

Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery

Inactivated 15 November 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas

Activated 16 February 1996 in Germany

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1917; Lorraine 1918; Picardy 1918

World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for KASSERINE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY

French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

Belgian Fourragere 1940

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at MONS

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at EUPEN-MALMEDY

Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1968

Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1965-1970


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