1st Battalion
33d Field Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 March 2001
1st Battalion
33d Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 33d Field Artillery, an element of the 11th Division
Organized 5 August 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland
Demobilized 12 December 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland
Reconstituted 22 July 1929 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 33d Field Artillery, an element of the 6th Division
(33d Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 6th Division)
Redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A , 33d Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, as an element of the 1st Division (later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division)
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 33d Artillery, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Redesignated 2 August 1965 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Field Artillery
Inactivated 31 March 1974 in Germany
Headquarters transferred 28 February 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Inactivated 15 August 1995 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; concurrently withdrawn from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 33d Field Artillery, redesignated 16 February 1996 as Battery A, 33d Field Artillery, assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1999 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Field Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated)
1st Battalion
33d Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
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