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4th Battalion
27th Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2007

4th Battalion
27th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery D, 27th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division

Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Demobilized 8 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery D, 27th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division

(27th Field Artillery relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 9th Division)

Redesignated 15 July 1940 as Battery D, 27th Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as an element of the 1st Armored Division

Absorbed 15 December 1941 by Battery A, 27th Field Artillery Battalion

(Battery A, 27th Field Artillery Battalion, redesignated 1 January 1942 as Battery A, 27th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Troop A, 27th Constabulary Squadron, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division; inactivated 20 December 1948 in Germany and converted and redesignated as Battery A, 27th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Armored Division; activated

7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas)

Former Battery D, 27th Field Artillery Battalion, reconstituted 15 February 1957 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Battalion, 27th Artillery

Redesignated 19 March 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Howitzer Battalion, 27th Artillery; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 83d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 20 March 1959 with Headquarters at Chillicothe, Ohio

Inactivated 15 April 1963 at Chillicothe, Ohio, and relieved from assignment to the 83d Infantry Division

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 4th Howitzer Battalion, 27th Field Artillery

Redesignated 16 June 1985 as the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated in Germany

Inactivated 15 January 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Assigned 16 February 1997 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment

4th Battalion
27th Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); *Tunisia; *Naples-Foggia; *Anzio; *Rome-Arno; * North Apennines; *Po Valley

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

War on Terrorism: *Global War on Terrorism

Decorations

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for AL KUT AND AN NAJAF

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for CENTRAL ITALY

Battery C additionally entitled to:

Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ 1991


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