Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 21 September 2014
3d Battalion,
2d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Organized 14 July 1798 at Fort Fayette, Pennsylvania, as Captain James Read's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 March 1799 as Captain James Read's Company, 1st Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1802 as Captain George W. Carmichael's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated 6 March 1806 as Captain James House's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated 15 February 1807 as Captain George Armistead's Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain George Armistead's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Redesignated in 1813 as Captain Lloyd Beall's Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Thomas Bennett's Company, Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Thomas Bennett's Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Redesignated 6 August 1815 as Captain Nathaniel Hall's Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company H, 4th Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company H, 2d Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 18th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 18th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 August 1916 as the 12th Company, Fort Mills [Philippine Islands]
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 12th Company, Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
- (Additionally designated 30 June 1922 as the 18th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 June 1924)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery H, 2d Coast Artillery
- Inactivated 15 April 1932 at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone
- Activated 30 April 1932 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
- Inactivated 1 September 1935 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
- Activated 30 April 1942 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1944 as Battery E, 2d Coast Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1945 as Battery E, Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
- Inactivated 20 July 1946 at Fort Story, Virginia
- Consolidated 28 June 1950 with Battery D, 136th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery D, 12th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 13 March 1952 as Battery D, 12th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Activated 8 April 1952 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey
- Redesignated 15 August 1953 as Battery D, 12th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey
- Redesignated 11 February 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 17 March 1958 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Inactivated 5 May 1959 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1962 as the 3d Battalion, 2d Artillery, and assigned to the 1st Armored Division
- Activated 1 March 1962 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Inactivated 25 March 1969 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
- Activated 2 November 1988 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Inactivated 15 July 1994 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Activated 16 October 1997 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as 3d Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Battery D, 136th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Activated 15 June 1943 at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
- Inactivated 12 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- War of 1812
- Canada
- Indian Wars
- *Seminoles
- 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 Apennies
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- England 1944
- Southwest Asia
- *Liberation and Defense
- of Kuwait
- *Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- *Belgian Fourragere 1940
- *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in defense of Antwerp
- *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in defense of Antwerp Harbor
- Battery C additionally entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2002-2003
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History