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76th Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007

76th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 18th Cavalry

Organized 13 June 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont

Converted and redesignated 1 November 1917 as the 76th Field Artillery

Assigned 12 November 1917 to the 3d Division

Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 3d Division

Assigned 1 July 1940 to the 7th Division

Reorganized and redesignated 22 January 1941 as the 76th Field Artillery Battalion

Relieved 1 June 1941 from assignment to the 7th Division

Inactivated 27 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 76th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Inactivated (less Battery A) 24 August 1948 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

(Battery A reorganized and redesignated 28 August 1953 as the 576th Armored Field Artillery Battery; inactivated 4 October 1954 at Fort Knox, Kentucky)

Redesignated 8 October 1954 as the 76th Field Artillery Battalion and activated at Fort Devens, Massachusetts (576th Armored Field Artillery Battery concurrently redesignated as Battery A, 76th Field Artillery Battalion)

Inactivated (less Battery B) 15 February 1958 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts (Battery B concurrently inactivated in Iceland)

Reorganized and redesignated 31 July 1959 as the 76th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 76th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 16 February 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 76th Field Artillery Regiment

76th Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918

World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

War on Terrorism: Iraq

Decorations

French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I for CHAMPAGNE-MARNE and AISNE-MARNE

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes


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