Headquarters
434th Field Artillery Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 May 2007
Headquarters, 434th Field Artillery Brigade Lineage
Constituted 21 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Tank Destroyer Brigade
Activated 24 November 1942 at Camp Hood, Texas
Inactivated 3 November 1945 in Germany
Converted and redesignated 17 April 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 434th Field Artillery Group, and allotted to the Organized Reserves
Activated 7 May 1947 at Kansas City, Missouri
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Redesignated 30 September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 434th Artillery Group
Location changed 31 December 1965 to Chicago, Illinois
Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 434th Field Artillery Group
Redesignated 1 June 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 434th Field Artillery Brigade
Inactivated 31 December 1990 at Chicago, Illinois
Transferred 9 November 2006 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
Headquarters activated 17 April 2007 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Headquarters, 434th Field Artillery Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
None