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3d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 April 2008

3d Battalion,43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage

Organized 5 August 1916 in the Regular Army at Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, as the Fort Command Company, Fort Mills

Redesignated in December 1916 as the 17th Company, Fort Mills [Philippine Islands]

Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 17th Company, Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays

Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 187th Company, Coast Artillery Corps

Inactivated 18 December 1922 at Fort Mills, Philippine Islands

Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery F, 43d Coast Artillery

Disbanded 14 June 1944

Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery B, 64th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery B, 64th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 25th Infantry Division

Inactivated 1 February 1957 in Hawaii and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division

Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Missile Battalion, 43d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Lumberton, New Jersey

Redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 3d Battalion, 43d Artillery

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery

Inactivated 15 September 1974 at Pedricktown, New Jersey

Activated 1 July 1987 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Regiment

ANNEX

Constituted 26 August 1941 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 64th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 25th Infantry Division

Activated 1 October 1941 in Hawaii

3d 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: *Global War on Terrorism

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

*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SAUDI ARABIA AND BAHRAIN 1991

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2002-2003

*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1992

*Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM

*Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Streamer embroidered ALASKA

*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MASAN-CHINJU

*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MUNSAN-NI


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