1st Battalion
17th Field Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 July 2003
1st Battalion
17th Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 17th Field Artillery
Organized 6 June 1917 at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin
(17th Field Artillery assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division; relieved 18 December 1920 from assignment to the 2d Division; assigned 22 July 1929 to the 1st Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 1st Division and assigned to the 2d Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1944 as Battery A, 17th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 17th Field Artillery (organic elements constituted 24 April 1958 and activated 1 June 1958)
Redesignated 20 June 1964 as the 1st Battalion, 17th Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 17th Field Artillery
1st Battalion
17th Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: *Aisne; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918; *Ile de France 1918
World War II: *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Naples-Foggia; *Rome-Arno; *Southern France; *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
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
*French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II for ROME-ARNO
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1952