Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery B, 29th Field Artillery, an element of the 10th Division

Organized 11 August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas

Demobilized 4 February 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas

Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 29th Field Artillery

Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery B, 29th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 14 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California

Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division

Redesignated 2 June 1958 as Battery B, 29th Artillery

Activated 21 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Inactivated 25 March 1964 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Activated 25 June 1965 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery B, 29th Field Artillery

Inactivated 23 June 1972 in Vietnam

Assigned 21 September 1978 to the 3d Infantry Division and activated in Germany

Relieved 1 April 1984 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, and assigned to the 8th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Battalion relieved 17 January 1992 from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division

Inactivated 15 April 1995 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment

Assigned 16 March 2008 to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, and activated at Fort Bliss, Texas

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
                                                                 
         World War II
                            *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
                                                                *Tet 69/Counteroffensive
                                                                *Summer-Fall 1969
                                                                *Winter-Spring 1970
                                                                *Sanctuary Counteroffensive
                                                                *Counteroffensive, Phase VII
                                                                *Consolidation I
                                                                *Consolidation II
                                                                *Cease-Fire

                                                                  Southwest Asia
                                                                *Defense of Saudi Arabia
                                                                *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
                                                                *Cease-Fire

 

DECORATIONS
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PLEIKU PROVINCE 1965
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: