Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2012
1st BATTALION,
319th FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT
- Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division
- Organized 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
- Demobilized 18 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division)
- Organized in January 1922 at Decatur, Georgia
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery Battalion
- Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery A, 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Battery A, 319th Field Artillery Battalion
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
- Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as Battery A, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1957 as Battery A, 319th Artillery, an element of the 82d Airborne Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 319th Artillery (organic elements constituted 6 March 1964 and activated 25 May 1964)
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- *St. Mihiel
- *Meuse-Argonne
- *Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- *Sicily
- *Naples Foggia
- *Normandy (with arrowhead)
- *Rhineland (with arrowhead)
- *Ardennes Alsace
- *Central Europe
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- *Dominican Republic
- *Grenada
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- *Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CHIUNZI PASS
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COTENTIN
- *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
- *Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944
- *Netherlands Orange Lanyard
- *Belgian Fourragere 1940
- *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at St. Vith
- *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 in Belgium and Germany
- Battery C additionally entitled to:
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History