2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 October 2008
2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 2 February 1907 in the Regular Army as the 138th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Organized in August 1907 at Fort Mott, New Jersey
Reorganized and redesignated in August 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Mills [Philippine Islands]
Reorganized and redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 138th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Inactivated 18 December 1922 in the Philippine Islands
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery C, 43d Coast Artillery
Disbanded 14 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division
Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division
Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Missile Battalion, 43d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Redmond, Washington
Inactivated 25 March 1966 at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Missile Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery
Redesignated 1 January 1984 as the 2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery, and activated at Fort Bliss, Texas
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment
ANNEX
Constituted 16 December 1940 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division
Activated 3 January 1941 at Fort Bliss, Texas
2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe; Central Pacific; Guadalcanal; Northern Solomons; *New Guinea; *Bismarck Archipelago; *Leyte (with arrowhead); *Luzon
Korean War: *UN Defensive; *UN Offensive; *CCF Intervention; *First UN Counteroffensive; *CCF Spring Offensive; *UN Summer-Fall Offensive; *Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; *Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered GUADALCANAL
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NAM RIVER
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAKCHON, KOREA
Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON
*Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SAUDI ARABIA AND BAHRAIN 1991
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1998-1999
Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944
TO 4 JULY 1945
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered WAEGWAN-
TAEGU
*Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer
embroidered KOREA
Battery E additionally entitled to:
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered
SOUTHWEST ASIA 2002-2003