3d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 December 1996
3d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 3d Regiment of Artillery and organized from existing units with Headquarters at Fort Washington, Maryland
Regiment broken up 13 February 1901 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as separate numbered companies and batteries of Artillery Corps
Reconstituted 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 3d Coast Artillery and organized (less Batteries C, F, and G) with Headquarters at Fort MacArthur, California
(Batteries A and B inactivated 1 March 1930 at San Pedro and Fort MacArthur, California, respectively; Batteries A and F activated 1 July 1939 at Fort MacArthur, California, and Fort Stevens, Oregon, respectively; Batteries D and F inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort Rosecrans, California, and Fort Stevens, Oregon, respectively; Battery B activated 1 July 1940 at Fort MacArthur, California; Batteries C, D, and F activated 2 December 1940 at Fort Rosecrans and Fort MacArthur, California; Battery G activated 1 June 1941 at Los Angeles, California; Battery G inactivated 29 August 1941 at Los Angeles, California; Battery G activated 14 February 1942 at Fort MacArthur, California)
Regiment broken up 18 October 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Battery B, 521st Coast Artillery Battalion
1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions as the 520th, 521st, and 522d Coast Artillery Battalions, respectively
After 18 October 1944 the above units underwent changes as follows:
Battery B, 521st Coast Artillery Battalion, disbanded 15 September 1945 at Fort MacArthur, California
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated
as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Group Activated
11 June 1951 at Camp Stewart, Georgia
Redesignated 20 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Artillery
Group Inactivated 15 December 1961 at Norfolk, Virginia
520th Coast Artillery Battalion redesignated 1 December 1944 as the 3d Coast Artillery Battalion Disbanded 15 September 1945 at Fort MacArthur, California Reconstituted 20 January 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX 1) and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 3d Infantry Division Redesignated 15 April 1953 as the 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
521st Coast Artillery Battalion disbanded 15 September 1945
at Fort MacArthur, California Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army
and redesignated as the 18th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion Redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun
Battalion Activated 2 May 1952 at Fort Custer, Michigan Redesignated 24 July
1953 as the 18th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion Redesignated 15 June 1957 as the 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile
Battalion Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Detroit, Michigan
522d Coast Artillery Battalion disbanded 15 September 1945
at Huntington Beach, California Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army;
concurrently consolidated with the 43d Antiaircraft
Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated
unit designated as the 43d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion,
an element of the 10th Infantry Division
Redesignated 15 June 1954 as the 43d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion Relieved
16 May 1957 from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division Inactivated 14 November
1957 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Artillery Group; 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion; 3d and 43d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions; and the 3d Armored Field Artillery Battalion (organized in 1907) consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 15 December 1961 as the 3d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
3d Artillery (less former 3d Armored Field Artillery Battalion) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Air Defense Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former 3d Armored Field Artillery Battalion concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 3d Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
Withdrawn 16 July 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
ANNEX 1
Constituted 6 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 534th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 15 July 1942 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Redesignated 12 December 1943 as the 534th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Inactivated 19 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
Redesignated 9 December 1948 as the 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army
Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas
(3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion assigned 22 November 1949 to the 3d Infantry Division)
ANNEX 2
Constituted 5 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2d Battalion, 504th Coast Artillery
Activated 1 July 1942 at Camp Hulen, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 20 January 1943 as the 630th Coast Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 12 December 1943 as the 630th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Inactivated 26 September 1945 in Italy
Redesignated 18 June 1948 as the 43d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and assigned to the 10th Infantry Division
Activated 1 July 1948 at Fort Riley, Kansas
3d Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
War of 1812: Canada
Indian Wars: Seminoles; Washington 1858
Mexican War: Palo Alto; Resaca de la Palma; Monterey; Buena Vista; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; Contreras; Churubusco; Molino del Rey; Chapultepec; Puebla 1847
Civil War: Peninsula; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Petersburg; Shenandoah; Mississippi 1863; Tennessee 1863; Tennessee 1864; Virginia 1863
War with Spain: Manila
World War II: Naples-Foggia (with arrowhead); Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno Southern France (with arrowhead); North Apennines; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; Po Valley
Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter Korea, Summer 1953
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER