42d Field Artillery
(Straight Arrows)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996
42d Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 29 June 1918 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 42d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
Organized 7 August 1918 in France
Inactivated 17 August 1921 at Camp Eustis, Virginia
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as the 1st Battalion, 42d Coast Artillery
Disbanded 14 June 1944
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 42d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 42d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Infantry Division
Relieved 1 April 1957 from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 42d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 42d Field Artillery
Withdrawn 15 January 1996 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
ANNEX
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 42d Field Artillery and assigned to the 14th Division
Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Custer, Michigan
Demobilized 7 February 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan
Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 42d Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 42d Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division), and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
Inactivated 16 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina
Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California
42d Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Alsace 1918
World War II: Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LUXEMBOURG
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES