1st Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 June 2008
1st Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 14 August 1901 in the Regular Army as the 107th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Organized 19 August 1901 at Fort Preble, Maine
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 107th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated in July 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Preble [Maine]
Reorganized and redesignated 21 July 1917 as Battery E, 6th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery E, 51st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Redesignated 7 August 1918 as Battery E, 43d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Inactivated 17 August 1921 at Camp Eustis, Virginia
(Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 107th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 43d Coast Artillery
Disbanded 14 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 64th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 64th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 25th Infantry Division
Inactivated 1 February 1957 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 43d Artillery (organic elements
concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington
Inactivated 25 March 1966 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Missile Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery
Redesignated 13 September 1972 as the 1st Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery, and activated at Fort Richardson, Alaska
Inactivated 31 July 1979 at Fort Richardson, Alaska
Activated 1 May 1982 at Fort Bliss, Texas
ANNEX
Constituted 26 August 1941 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 64th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the
25th Infantry Division
Activated 1 October 1941 in Hawaii
1st Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe; *Central Pacific; *Guadalcanal; *Northern Solomons; New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; Leyte (with arrowhead); *Luzon
Korean War: *UN Defensive; *UN Offensive; *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: *Cease-Fire
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered GUADALCANAL
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NAM RIVER
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAKCHON, KOREA
*Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1992-1993
*Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
*Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Streamer embroidered ALASKA
*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MASAN-CHINJU
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MUNSAN-NI