5th Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 November 1996
5th Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Constituted 3 March 1847 in the Regular Army as Company M, 2d Regiment of Artillery
Organized 12 March 1847
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 22d Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 22d Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 6 July 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Barrancas [Florida]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 5th Company, Coast Defenses of Pensacola
Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 22d Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery A, 2d Coast Artillery, and inactivated at Pensacola, Florida
Activated 1 September 1935 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1944 as Battery A, 2d Coast Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1945 as Battery A, Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
Inactivated 20 July 1946 at Fort Story, Virginia
Redesignated 28 June 1950 as Battery A, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 27 February 1951 as Battery A, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 1st Armored Division
Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Consolidated 20 March 1951 with Battery A, 434th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Redesignated 20 May 1953 as Battery A, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
Redesignated 20 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Activated 1 September 1958 in Germany
Inactivated 21 March 1960 in Germany
(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2d Artillery, consolidated 15 December 1961 with Battery A, 2d Field Artillery Battalion [organized in 1901], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2d Artillery)
Redesignated 25 April 1966 as the 5th Battalion, 2d Artillery
Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Inactivated 23 June 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Redesignated (less former Battery A, 2d Field Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 5th Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery (former Battery A, 2d Field Artillery Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 4th Battalion, 2d Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
Activated 16 August 1991 in Germany
ANNEX
Constituted 31 January 1942 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 434th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 1 March 1942 at Camp Hulen, Texas
Redesignated 5 December 1943 as Battery A, 434th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Disbanded 14 January 1945 in Italy
Reconstituted 20 March 1951 in the Regular Army
5th Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
War of 1812: Canada
Indian Wars: Seminoles
Mexican War: Palo Alto; Resaca de la Palma; Monterey; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; Contreras; Churubusco; Molino del Rey; Chapultepec; Tamaulipas 1846; Puebla 1847
Civil War: *Bull Run; *Peninsula; *Antietam; *Fredericksburg; *Chancellorsville; *Gettysburg; *Wilderness; *Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; *Petersburg; *Shenandoah; *Appomattox; Florida 1861; Florida 1862; Virginia 1861; *Virginia 1862; *Virginia 1863; *Virginia 1865; *Maryland 1862; *Maryland 1863
World War II: Tunisia; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; *Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France; *North Apennines; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; England 1944
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; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Decorations
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1966-1967
*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1967-1969
*Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1966-1971
Battery A additionally entitled to:
Valorous Unit Award for VIETNAM 1968-1969
Battery B additionally entitled to:
Valorous Unit Award for VIETNAM 1968-1969
Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969-1970
Battery C additionally entitled to:
Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969