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4th Battalion
319th Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 April 2007

4th Battalion
319th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery D, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division

Organized 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia

Demobilized 18 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Battery D, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division)

Organized in January 1922 at Decatur, Georgia

Absorbed 13 February 1942 by Battery A, 319th Field Artillery Battalion

(Battery A, 319th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery Battalion; ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana; reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery A, 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion; reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery Battalion; [Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps]; withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army; reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as Battery A, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion)

Former Battery D, 319th Field Artillery, reconstituted 25 April 1957 in the Regular Army; concurrently, redesignated as Battery D, 319th Artillery, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Inactivated 3 April 1964 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery D, 319th Field Artillery

Activated 16 October 1988 in Italy

Assigned 16 October 2000 to the 173d Airborne Brigade (later redesignated as the 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team)

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery D, 319th Field Artillery Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

4th Battalion
319th Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: *St Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918

World War II: *Sicily; *Naples-Foggia; *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Rhineland (with arrowhead); *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for CHIUNZI PASS

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for STE. MERE EGLISE

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), for IRAQ 2003

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, for STE. MERE EGLISE

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, for COTENTIN

*French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere

*Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), for NIJMEGEN 1944

* Netherlands Orange Lanyard

*Belgian Fourragere 1940

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at St. Vith

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium and Germany


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