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40th Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996

40th Field Artillery Lineage

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 40th Field Artillery and assigned to the 14th Division

Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Custer, Michigan

Demobilized 6 February 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan

Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army the 40th Field Artillery

Activated 4 June 1941 at Camp Roberts, California

Regiment broken up 1 March 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

    Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Field Artillery Battalion Group
    1st and 2d Battalions as the 974th and 975th Field Artillery Battalions, respectively

    After 1 March 1943, the above units underwent changes as follows:

    Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 15 March 1946 in Germany
    Activated 26 April 1951 at Camp Carson, Colorado
    Redesignated 9 September 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Field Artillery Missile Group
    Redesignated 20 July 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Artillery Group
    Inactivated 16 September 1962 in Germany

    974th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 10 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
    Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 509th Field Artillery Battalion
    Redesignated 25 June 1948 as the 509th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 3d Armored Division
    Activated 30 July 1948 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
    Inactivated 1 October 1957 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division

    975th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 13 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
    Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 510th Field Artillery Battalion
    Activated 1 February 1949 in Austria
    Redesignated 20 August 1956 as the 510th Field Artillery Rocket Battalion
    Inactivated 1 June 1958 in Italy

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Artillery Group; 509th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; and the 510th Field Artillery Rocket Battalion consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 16 September 1962 as the 40th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 40th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 16 September 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System with Headquarters in Germany

Transferred 15 January 1996 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

40th Field Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; 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

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for VIETNAM 1966-1967

Valorous Unit Award for SAIGON-LONG BINH

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA


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