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Lineage and Honors Information as of 4 March 2010

2d BATTALION,
319th FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery B, 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 B, 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 B, 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 B, 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Battery B, 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  • Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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 B, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1957 as Battery B, 319th Artillery
  • Relieved 1 February 1964 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1964 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Battery, 2d Battalion, 319th Artillery (organic elements constituted 21 January 1964 and activated 3 February 1964)
  • Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 319th Field Artillery
  • Inactivated 31 July 1972 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
  • Assigned 2 October 1986 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d 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
  • Vietnam
  • *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
  • Southwest Asia
  • *Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CHIUNZI PASS
  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DONG AP BIA MOUNTAIN
  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF SAIGON
  • *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
  • *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • *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
  • *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
  • *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971
  • *Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
  • Battery B additionally entitled to:
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered THUA THIEN PROVINCE
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE 2005

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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