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479th Field Artillery Brigade

Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2007

Headquarters, 479th Field Artillery Brigade Lineage

Constituted 11 March 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 656th Field Artillery Battalion

Activated 20 April 1944 at Camp Rucker, Alabama

Inactivated 1 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 656th Field Artillery Battalion, redesignated 24 December 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 479th Field Artillery Group, and allotted to the Organized Reserves (remainder of 656th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently disbanded)

Activated 2 January 1947 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 479th Artillery Group

Location changed 1 May 1960 to Horsham, Pennsylvania; location changed 31 January 1968 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Redesignated 1 November 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 479th Field Artillery Group

Redesignated 16 April 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 479th Field Artillery Brigade

Inactivated 15 September 1996 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Headquarters, 479th Field Artillery Brigade Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe

Decorations

None


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