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