Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 October 2018
Battery G, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Organized in 1814 in the Regular Army as Lieutenant Francis Stribling’s Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Redesignated 30 June 1814 as Captain Francis Stribling’s Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Consolidated in June 1815 with Captain Adam Larrabee’s Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery (organized in 1814), and Captain Thomas Ketcham’s Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery (organized in 1814), and consolidated unit designated as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Towson’s Company of Light Artillery, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Redesignated 22 May 1816 as Company D, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company H, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 7th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 7th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 30 June 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort Banks [Massachusetts]
- Redesignated 21 July 1917 as Battery K, 6th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 7 March 1918 as the 6th Battery, Howitzer Regiment, 30th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps
- Battery G, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Redesignated 7 August 1918 as Battery D, 44th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
- (Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 7th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Coast Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Coast Artillery Group
- Redesignated 2 January 1945 as Headquarters Battery, Harbor Defenses of Cristobal
- Inactivated 15 January 1947 at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone
- Redesignated 21 June 1950 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Antiaircraft Group
- Consolidated 18 November 1952 with Headquarters Battery, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Group (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters Battery, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Group
- Activated 15 April 1953 in Germany
- Inactivated 26 December 1957 in Germany
- Consolidated 19 March 1959 with Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion (organized in 1916), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 7th Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 83d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 20 March 1959 with Headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio
- Redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 7th Battalion, 1st Artillery
- Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Cleveland, Ohio, and relieved from assignment to the 83d Infantry Division
- Redesignated (less former Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 7th Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery (former Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 7th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery – hereafter separate lineage)
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 7th Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment Battery G, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Allotted 18 April 2018 to the Regular Army; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery concurrently redesignated as Battery G, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Battery G, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, to be activated 16 October 2018 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- ANNEX
- Constituted 5 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters Battery, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Group
- Activated 17 August 1942 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Redesignated 31 December 1943 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Group
- Disbanded 13 February 1945 in France
- Reconstituted 18 November 1952 in the Regular Army
Campaign Participation Credit
- War of 1812
- Canada
- Indian Wars
- Seminoles
- Texas 1859
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- Contreras
- Churubusco
- Chapultepec
- Tamaulipas 1846
- Vera Cruz 1847
- Mexico
- Civil War
- Sumter
- Bull Run
- Mississippi River
- Peninsula
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Shenandoah
- Appomattox
- Florida 1861
- Florida 1862
- Florida 1864
- South Carolina 1862
- South Carolina 1863
- Virginia 1863
- Virginia 1864
- West Virginia 1863
- Louisiana 1864
- World War I
- St. Mihiel
- Alsace 1918
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- American Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
- Tunisia
- Sicily
- Rome-Arno
- Rhineland
Decorations
None
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History