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37th Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 September 2000

37th Field Artillery Lineage

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 37th Field Artillery and assigned to the 13th Division

Organized 17 August 1918 at Camp Lewis, Washington

Demobilized 11 February 1919 at Camp Lewis, Washington

Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 37th Field Artillery

Redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 37th Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division), and activated at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1956 as the 37th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Relieved 20 June 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 37th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 37th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 16 February 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

37th Field Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Normandy; Northern 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

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TAEGU

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CHIPYONG-NI

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON

Belgian Fourragere 1940

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action on Elsenborn Crest

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953


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