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7th Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996

7th Field Artillery Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 7th Field Artillery

Organized 7-15 July 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division (later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 7th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division

Consolidated 20 December 1965 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 7th Artillery Group, and the 7th and 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions (all organized in 1898 as the 7th Regiment of Artillery) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

7th Artillery (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 7th Artillery Group, and the 7th and 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 7th Field Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former elements concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Air Defense Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)

Withdrawn 16 April 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

7th Field Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1917; Lorraine 1918; Picardy 1918

World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam: Defense; 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

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for LORRAINE-PICARDY

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for KASSERINE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY

French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere

Belgian Fourragere 1940

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at MONS

    Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at EUPEN-MALMEDY


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