5th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 December 1996
5th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Organized 6 July 1916 in the Regular Army at Fort Washington, Maryland, as the 1st Company, Fort Washington [Maryland]
Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1917 as Battery I, 8th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery I, 53d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Redesignated 15 July 1918 as Battery E, 52d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Inactivated 16 May 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
Activated 18 August 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
(Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 227th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 52d Coast Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1943 as Battery A, 285th Coast Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 5 May 1944 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
Disbanded 14 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army, consolidated with Battery A, 52d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 52d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division
Inactivated 5 June 1958 and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
Withdrawn 18 May 1959 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Redesignated 1 December 1971 as the 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery
Redesignated 21 December 1975 as the 5th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army, assigned to the 24th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Inactivated 16 November 1988 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
Activated 16 September 1996 at Fort Bliss, Texas
ANNEX
Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 52d Field Artillery
Redesignated 26 August 1941 as Battery A, 52d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division
Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii
5th Battalion, 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 Pacific; *New Guinea (with arrowhead); *Leyte; *Luzon; *Southern Philippines (with arrowhead); *Central Europe
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
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for DEFENSE OF KOREA
*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for PYONGTAEK
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953