Battery D, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007
Battery D, 26th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery D, 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 D, 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
Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Battalion (Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated
1 October 1940 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Battalion; inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany; activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey)
Former Battery D, 26th Field Artillery, reconstituted 1 December 1957 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Observation Battalion, 26th Artillery
Withdrawn 24 March 1959 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 1 April 1959 with Headquarters at Norman, Oklahoma
Redesignated 12 October 1961 as the 4th Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery
Inactivated 23 February 1963 at Norman, Oklahoma
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 4th Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Field Artillery
Withdrawn 21 March 1978 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, concurrently redesignated as Battery D, 26th Field Artillery, assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Inactivated 15 December 1985 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery D, 26th Field Artillery Regiment
Activated 17 June 2007 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Battery D, 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
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