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Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 July 2013

1st Battalion, 62d Air Defense Artillery Regiment

  • Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
  • Organized in 1798 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Captain Callender Irvine’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
  • Redesignated 3 March 1799 as Captain Callender Irvine’s Company, 2d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
  • Consolidated 28 October 1800 with Captain William Steele’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army and organized near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Captain Walter L. Cochran’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers; redesignated in 1800 as Captain William Steele’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers), and consolidated unit designated as Captain Callender Irvine’s Company, 2d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
  • Redesignated 20 May 1801 as Captain George W. Carmichael’s Company, 2d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
  • Consolidated 1 April 1802 with Captain William A. Barron’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army and organized at Fort Jay, New York), and Captain William Deveaux’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army and organized at Fort Jay, New York, as Captain Francis K. Huger’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers; redesignated in 1801 as Captain William Deveaux’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers), and consolidated unit redesignated as Captain George Ingersoll’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
  • Redesignated 8 July 1802 as Captain John W. Livingston’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
  • Redesignated in July 1804 as Captain Richard Whiley’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
  • Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain James R. Hanham’s Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
  • Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain James R. Hanham’s Company, Corps of Artillery
  • Redesignated in April 1815 as Captain Richard L. Howell’s Company, Corps of Artillery
  • Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Richard L. Howell’s Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
  • Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company K, 4th Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
  • Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company G, 2d Regiment of Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 17th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 17th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated 5 August 1916 as the 4th Company, Fort Mills [Philippine Islands]
  • Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 4th Company, Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
  • Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 17th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Reorganized and redesignated 14 September 1922 as Battery B, 62d Artillery (Antiaircraft) (Coast Artillery Corps) (Concurrently additionally designated as the 17th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
  • Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery B, 62d Coast Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated 24 March 1944 as Battery B, 62d Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
  • Inactivated 13 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Redesignated 9 December 1948 as Battery B, 62d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
  • Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas
  • Redesignated 1 October 1953 as Battery B, 62d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
  • Inactivated 15 September 1958 in Germany
  • Redesignated 16 September 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Automatic Weapons Battalion, 62d Artillery
  • Redesignated 1 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 62d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
  • Battalion activated 1 June 1959 at St. Louis, Missouri
  • Redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 1st Battalion, 62d Artillery
  • Inactivated 15 January 1969 at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois
  • Activated 15 March 1971 at Fort Bliss, Texas
  • Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 62d Air Defense Artillery
  • Assigned 6 January 1972 to the 25th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 15 September 2005 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 62d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
  • Activated 18 October 2011 at Fort Hood, Texas

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • War of 1812
  • * Streamer without inscription
  • Mexican War
  • *Monterey
  • *Vera Cruz
  • *Cerro Gordo
  • *Contreras
  • *Churubusco
  • *Molino del Rey
  • *Chapultepec
  • *Puebla 1847
  • Indian Wars
  • *Seminoles
  • Washington 1858
  • Civil War
  • *Bull Run
  • *Peninsula
  • *Antietam
  • *Fredericksburg
  • *Chancellorsville
  • *Gettysburg
  • *Wilderness
  • *Spotsylvania
  • Shenandoah
  • *Cold Harbor
  • *Virginia 1861
  • *Virginia 1862
  • *Virginia 1863
  • War with Spain
  • Manila
  • Philippine Insurrection
  • Manila
  • Malolos
  • Luzon 1899
  • World War II
  • *Algeria-French Morocco
  • *Tunisia
  • *Sicily
  • *Rome-Arno
  • *Southern France
  • *Rhineland
  • *Ardennes-Alsace
  • *Central Europe
  • 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
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered INCHON

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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