1st Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 November 1996
1st Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Organized in June 1798 in Rhode Island as Captain John Henry's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 3 March 1799 as Captain John Henry's Company, 4th Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated in August 1800 as Captain William Steele's Company, 4th Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (Captain Steele joined company in January 1801)
Consolidated 1 April 1802 with Captain Lloyd Beall's Company, 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers (constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army and organized in 1799 at Georgetown, District of Columbia), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Captain Lloyd Beall's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated in July 1810 as Captain James House's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Reorganized and redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain James House's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 16 August 1813 as Captain Julius F. Heileman's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Julius F. Heileman's Company, Corps of Artillery
Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Julius F. Heileman's Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company L, 1st Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company D, 2d Regiment of Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 15th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 15th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated in July 1916 as the 3d Company, Fort Randolph [Canal Zone]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 9th Company, Coast Defenses of Cristobal
Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 15th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery D, 2d Coast Artillery, and inactivated in the Canal Zone
Activated 1 November 1938 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1944 as Battery A, 175th Coast Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1945 as Battery F, Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
Inactivated 20 July 1946 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Redesignated 28 June 1950 as Battery D, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 27 February 1951 as Battery D, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 1st Armored Division
Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Consolidated 20 March 1951 with Battery D, 434th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery D, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Redesignated 20 May 1953 as Battery D, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
Consolidated 15 December 1961 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery (active) (organized in 1907), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery, an element of the 8th Infantry Division (organic elements constituted and activated 1 August 1957)
Redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 2d Artillery
Redesignated (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery; concurrently inactivated in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division (former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 2d Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
1st Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery, activated 13 September 1972 in Korea
Inactivated 15 July 1981 in Korea
Activated 16 March 1989 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
ANNEX
Constituted 31 January 1942 in the Army of the United States as Battery D, 434th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 1 March 1942 at Camp Hulen, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 5 December 1943 as Battery D, 434th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Disbanded 14 January 1945 in Italy
Reconstituted 20 March 1951 in the Regular Army
1st Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
War of 1812: Canada
Indian Wars: *Seminoles; *New Mexico 1855
Mexican War: Palo Alto; Resaca de la Palma; *Monterey; *Vera Cruz; *Cerro Gordo; *Contreras; *Churubusco; *Molino del Rey; *Chapultepec; Tamaulipas 1846; *Puebla 1847
Civil War: *Bull Run; *Peninsula; *Antietam; *Fredericksburg; *Chancellorsville; *Gettysburg; *Wilderness; *Spotsylvania; *Cold Harbor; *Petersburg; *Shenandoah; Appomattox; Florida 1861; Florida 1862; Virginia 1861; Virginia 1862; *Virginia 1863; Virginia 1865; *Maryland 1863
World War II: Tunisia; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; *Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France; *North Apennines; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; England 1944
Decorations
*Army Superior Unit Award for 1990-1991
*Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for KOREA 1978-1981