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17th Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 July 2003

17th Field Artillery Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 17th Field Artillery

Organized 6 June 1917 at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin

Assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division

Relieved 18 December 1920 from assignment to the 2d Division

Assigned 22 July 1929 to the 1st Division

Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 1st Division and assigned to the 2d Division

Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division

Regiment broken up 14 February - 1 March 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

    Headquarters and Headquarters Battery on 1 March 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group
    1st Battalion on 1 March 1944 as the 17th Field Artillery Battalion
    2d Battalion on 14 February 1944 as the 630th Field Artillery Battalion

    After 1 March 1944 the above units underwent changes as follows:

    Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 27 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
    Activated 20 December 1948 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
    Redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Artillery Group

    17th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
    Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
    Inactivated 1 June 1958 in Korea

    630th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 22 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
    Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 537th Field Artillery Battalion
    Activated 1 October 1948 at Camp Carson, Colorado
    Inactivated 25 June 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Artillery Group, and the 17th and 537th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 31 July 1959 as the 17th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September as the 17th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 16 July 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

17th Field Artillery Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918; Ile de France 1918

World War II: Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Southern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; 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; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

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; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PLEIKU PROVENCE

Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ

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

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

French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere

French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II for ROME-ARNO


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