26th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007
26th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 26th Field Artillery and assigned to the 9th Division
Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Demobilized 9 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as the 26th Field Artillery
Assigned 22 July 1929 to the 5th Division
Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division (later redesignated as the 9th Infantry Division)
Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 26th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany
Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey
Relieved 1 December 1957 from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division; concurrently, reorganized and redesignated as the 26th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 26th Field Artillery
Withdrawn 16 June 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 26th Field Artillery Regiment
26th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe
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, Consolidation I
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BINH THUAN PROVINCE
Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Navy), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action along the Meuse River
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes