2d Battalion
377th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 October 2007
2d Battalion
377th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Battery B, 377th Field Artillery, an element of the 101st Division (later redesignated as the 101st Airborne Division)
Organized in November 1921 at Green Bay, Wisconsin
Reorganized and redesignated 30 January 1942 as Battery B, 377th Field Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery B, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion; concurrently inactivated, withdrawn from the Organized Reserves, and allotted to the Army of the United States
Activated 16 August 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France
Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Battery B, 515th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion
Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army
Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Inactivated 15 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Battery B, 377th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 25 April 1957 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
Redesignated 19 July 1957 as Battery B, 377th Artillery
Assigned 1 September 1957 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Inactivated 8 July 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery B, 377th Field Artillery
Relieved 1 April 1974 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 377th Artillery, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Inactivated 16 July 1987 in Germany
Redesignated 15 October 2003 as Battery B, 377th Field Artillery
Activated 16 December 2003 in Afghanistan
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery B, 377th Field Artillery Regiment
Redesignated 16 November 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment and assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently activated)
2d Battalion
377th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Rhineland (with arrowhead); *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*Netherlands Orange Lanyard
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in FRANCE AND BELGIUM
*Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm, Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE; cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Bastogne