Lineages and Honors Information
Field Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 January 2021
107th Field Artillery Regiment
(FOURTEENTH PENNSYLVANIA)
- Constituted 14 December 1870 in the Pennsylvania National Guard as the 14th Infantry Regiment
- Organized 3 January 1871 from existing companies at Pittsburgh
- Mustered into Federal service 12 May 1898 at Mount Gretna as the 14th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 28 February 1899 and resumed state status as the 14th Infantry Regiment
- Converted and redesignated 1 March 1916 as the 1st Field Artillery Regiment
- Mustered into Federal service 5 July 1916 at Mount Gretna; mustered out of Federal service 28 November-4 December 1916 at Pittsburgh
- Mustered into Federal service 15-25 July 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 October 1917 as the 107th Field Artillery and assigned to the 28th Division.
- Demobilized 21 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
- Reorganized 16 October 1919 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Pittsburgh as the 1st Field Artillery
- Redesignated 1 April 1921 as the 107th Field Artillery and assigned to the 28th Division; Headquarters Federally recognized 22 June 1921 at Pittsburgh
- Inducted into Federal service 17 February 1941 at home stations
- Regiment broken up 17 February 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded
- 2d Battalion as the 229th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
- (1st Battalion as the 107th Field Artillery Battalion and relieved from assignment to the 28th Division – hereafter separate lineage)
- 229th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 22 October 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
- Consolidated 22 October 1946 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 107th Field Artillery (reconstituted 25 August 1945 in the Pennsylvania National Guard), and consolidated unit reorganized and Federally recognized at Pittsburgh as the 107th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 5 September 1950 at Pittsburgh
- (107th Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 25 August 1953 at Pittsburgh)
- Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the 107th Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as the 107th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Howitzer Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
- Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
- Reorganized 17 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 42d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 107th Field Artillery
- Reorganized 1 April 1975 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
- Withdrawn 5 April 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 18 December 2003 at home stations; released from active Federal service 14 June 2005 and reverted to state control)
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 107th Field Artillery Regiment
- Reorganized 1 September 2007 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Oise-Aisne
- Ypres-Lys
- Meuse-Argonne
- Champagne 1918
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Headquarters Battery (New Castle), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
Battery B (Hampton Battery – Beaver Falls), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
- Civil War
- Valley
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Virginia 1862
- Virginia 1863
- Virginia 1864
- War with Spain
- Puerto Rico
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ARDENNES
- Luxembourg Croix de Guerre, Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG (earned by the 107th Field Artillery Battalion)
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
- Battery B (Hampton Battery – Beaver Falls), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History