Battery H, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 April 2007
Battery H, 26th Field Artillery Lineage Regiment
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division
Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Demobilized 9 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery
(26th Field Artillery assigned 22 July 1929 to the 5th Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division [later redesignated as the 9th Infantry Division])
Redesignated in December 1938 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery (Combat Train concurrently separated from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery--hereafter separate lineage)
Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 26th Field Artillery Battalion (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 26th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 26th Field Artillery Battalion; inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany; activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey)
Former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, reconstituted 1 December 1957 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 8th Observation Battalion, 26th Artillery
Redesignated 14 June 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 8th Battalion, 26th Artillery
Activated 15 July 1966 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Inactivated 28 April 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 8th Battalion, 26th Field Artillery
Redesignated 18 May 2005 as Battery H, 26th Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery H, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Activated 18 September 2006 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Battery H, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); *Tunisia; *Sicily; *Normandy; *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Vietnam: *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; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for BINH THUAN PROVINCE
*Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), for VIETNAM 1967
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action along the Meuse River
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, for VIETNAM 1967-1971