Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007
Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, an element of 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 Battery A, 26th Field Artillery
(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 Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany
Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey
(26th Field Artillery Battalion relieved 1 December 1957 from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Observation Battalion, 26th Artillery (organic elements constituted 1 December 1957 and activated 2 December 1957)
Reorganized and redesignated 23 September 1961 as the 1st Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery
Redesignated 15 April 1968 as the 1st Battalion, 26th Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 26th Field Artillery
Inactivated 20 September 1978 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, redesignated 16 June 1988 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
Inactivated 15 August 1995 at Fort Carson, Colorado
Activated 16 January 1996 at Fort Hood, Texas
Inactivated 15 September 1998 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
Activated 17 December 2004 at Fort Hood, Texas
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), *Tunisia, *Sicily, *Normandy, *Northern France, *Rhineland, *Ardennes Alsace, *Central Europe
Southwest Asia: *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*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