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Battery C, 26th Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 April 2007

Battery C, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery C, 26th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division

Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Demobilized 9 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 26th Field Artillery

(26th Field Artillery assigned 22 July 1929 to the 5th Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division [later redesignated as the 9th Infantry Division])

Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 26th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey

Inactivated 1 December 1957 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division; concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Observation Battalion, 26th Artillery

Activated 25 June 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (organic elements constituted 2 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958)

Redesig­nated 24 June 1961 as the 3d Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery

Redesignated 25 July 1966 as the 3d Battalion, 26th Artillery

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery

Inactivated 24 March 1972 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, redesignated

16 June 1988 as Battery C, 26th Field Artillery, assigned to the 2d Armored Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 15 September 1991 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Armored Division

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery C, 26th Field Artillery Regiment

Activated 18 September 2006 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Battery C, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

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

Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire

Decorations

*Belgian Fourragere 1940

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action along the Meuse River

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes


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