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9th Field Artillery
(The Mighty Ninth)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996

9th Field Artillery Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 9th Field Artillery

Organized 6 August 1916 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii

Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

(1st and 2d Battalions activated 1 October 1922 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, respectively; 2d Battalion inactivated 31 December 1922 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma)

Assigned 24 March 1923 to the 7th Division

Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 9th Division

(1st Battalion consolidated 15 September 1927 with the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery, and consolidated unit designated as the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage; new 1st Battalion concurrently constituted)

Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 4th Division (3d Battalion concurrently constituted)

(1st Battalion activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington)

Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division)

(2d Battalion activated 1 May-12 October 1939 at Fort Lewis, Washington)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 9th Field Artillery Battalion

Relieved 1 September 1950 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division

Reassigned 17 January 1951 to the 3d Infantry Division

Relieved 1 July 1957 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 9th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 9th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 17 January 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

9th Field Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; 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

Vietnam: Counteroffensive; 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

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR

Valorous Unit Award for QUANG NGAI PROVINCE

Army Superior Unit Award for 1986

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

French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE

Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA


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