52d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 January 1997
52d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Organized 22 July 1917 in the Regular Army at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as the 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 5 February 1918 as the 52d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
(3d Battalion inactivated 16 May 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia; activated 18 August 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia; 1st Battalion inactivated 1 August 1922 at Fort Eustis, Virginia)
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as the 52d Coast Artillery
(Battery D inactivated 1 November 1938 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Battery F inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Batteries D and F activated 8 January 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey; 1st Battalion activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey)
Regiment broken up 1 May 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded at Fort Hancock,
New Jersey
1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions as the 286th, 287th, and 288th Coast Artillery Battalions,
respectively (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 288th Coast Artillery Battalion,
concurrently inactivated at Fort Hancock, New Jersey)
After 1 May 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52d Coast Artillery,
reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters
and Headquarters Battery, 52d Field Artillery Group
Activated 18 January 1952 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52d Artillery
Group
Inactivated 30 June 1971 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
286th Coast Artillery Battalion converted and redesignated
30 August 1944 as the 538th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 14 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
Activated 31 December 1946 in the Philippine Islands
Inactivated 30 May 1947 in the Philippine Islands
Activated 22 March 1951 at Camp Carson, Colorado
Inactivated 1 June 1958 in Germany
287th Coast Artillery Battalion converted and redesignated
30 August 1944 as the 539th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 28 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
Activated 31 December 1946 in the Philippine Islands
Inactivated 30 May 1947 in the Philippine Islands
Activated 18 March 1955 in Japan|
Inactivated 25 March 1956 in Japan
286th Coast Artillery Battalion inactivated 18 April 1944
at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Disbanded 14 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with
the 52d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit
designated as the 52d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry
Division
Inactivated 5 June 1958 and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52d Artillery Group, and the 538th, 539th, and 52d Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 30 June 1971 as the 52d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 52d Air Defense Artillery
Withdrawn 16 April 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
ANNEX
Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 52d Field Artillery
Redesignated 26 August 1941 as the 52d Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 24th Infantry Division
Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
52d Air Defense Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Champagne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Central Europe; Central Pacific; New Guinea (with arrowhead); Leyte; Luzon; Southern Philippines (with arrowhead)
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Vietnam: Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for DEFENSE OF KOREA
Valorous Unit Award for DAK TO - BEN HET
Valorous Unit Award for SAUDI ARABIA AND BAHRAIN
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for FLORIDA 1962-1963
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1969