Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 June 2011
1st BATTALION,
41st FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT
Constituted 26 April 1918 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 41st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Organized 1 October 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Demobilized 22 December 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia
Reconstituted 15 January 1921 in the Regular Army as Battery A, Hawaiian Railway Battalion
Organized 22 December 1921 at Fort Kamehameha, Territory of Hawaii
Redesignated 1 June 1922 as Battery A, 41st Artillery Battalion (Railway) (Coast Artillery Corps)
(Additionally designated 30 June 1922 as the 199th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery A, 41st Coast Artillery (Railway)
Reorganized 22 May 1943 as Battery A, 41st Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense)
Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1944 as the 831st Coast Artillery Battery
Disbanded 13 August 1944 in Hawaii
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and consolidated with Battery A, 41st Field Artillery Battalion (active at Fort Benning, Georgia) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 41st Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 3d Infantry Division
41st Field Artillery Battalion relieved 6 April 1951 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; Assigned 2 December 1954 to the 3d Infantry Division
Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 41st Artillery, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Inactivated 25 June 1963 in Germany
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Missile Battalion, 41st Field Artillery
Redesignated 13 September 1972 as the 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery, and activated in Germany
Inactivated 17 January 1986 in Germany
Assigned 16 August 1988 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Relieved 15 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment
ANNEX
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 41st Field Artillery, an element of the 14th Division
Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Custer, Michigan
Demobilized 6 February 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan
Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 41st Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 41st Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington, as an element of the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
*Algeria French Morocco (with arrowhead)
*Tunisia
*Sicily (with arrowhead)
*Anzio (with arrowhead)
*Rome Arno
*Southern France (with arrowhead)
*Rhineland
*Central Europe
*Central Pacific
Southwest Asia
*Defense of Saudi Arabia
*Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
*Cease-Fire
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1983-1985
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
*Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2001
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
*French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History