Lineages and Honors Information
Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 Nov 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
41st Field Artillery Brigade
(RAILGUNNERS)

  • Constituted 26 August 1918 in the Regular Army as the 41st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
  • Organized 1 October 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
  • Demobilized 22 December 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
  • Reconstituted 15 January 1921 in the Regular Army as the Hawaiian Railway Battalion
  • Organized 22 December 1921 at Fort Kamehameha, Territory of Hawaii
  • Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 41st Artillery Battalion (Railway) (Coast Artillery Corps)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as the 41st Coast Artillery
  • Inactivated 30 June 1931 at Fort Kamehameha, Territory of Hawaii
  • Activated 21 April 1942 at Fort Hase, Territory of Hawaii
  • Disbanded 25 May 1944 at Fort Kamehameha, Territory of Hawaii
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Coast Artillery, reconstituted 29 June 1950 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Field Artillery Group
  • Activated 18 January 1952 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
  • Redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Artillery Group
  • Inactivated 15 November 1969 in Vietnam
  • Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Field Artillery Group, and activated in Germany
  • Redesignated 16 June 1982 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Field Artillery Brigade
  • Inactivated 15 July 2005 in Germany
  • Redesignated 28 March 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Fires Brigade
  • Activated 16 April 2007 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Redesignated 16 October 2014 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Field Artillery Brigade
  • Inactivated 15 August 2015 at Fort Hood, Texas1
  • Activated 16 September 2018 in Germany

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater, streamer without inscription
  • 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
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003
  • Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1969

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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