6th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996
6th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery Lineage
Organized 1 June 1917 in the Regular Army at Fort Washington, Maryland, as the 3d Company, Fort Washington [Maryland]
Reorganized and redesignated 17 July 1917 as Battery K, 8th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps
Redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery K, 53d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Redesignated 15 July 1918 as Battery F, 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 229th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery F, 52d Coast Artillery
Inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Activated 8 January 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1943 as Battery A, 288th 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 Battery B, 52d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX),
and consolidated unit designated as Battery B, 52d Field
Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division
Inactivated 5 June 1958 and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 November 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 6th Missile Battalion, 52d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 17 November 1960 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Redesignated 20 August 1965 as the 6th Battalion, 52d Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 6th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery
Inactivated 15 October 1993 in Germany
Activated 16 February 1996 in Germany
ANNEX
Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 52d Field Artillery
Redesignated 26 August 1941 as Battery B, 52d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division
Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
6th 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 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
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