DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

1st BATTALION, 44th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY

Constituted 2 March 1899 in the Regular Army as Battery O, 1st Regiment of Artillery, and organized at New Orleans, Louisiana

Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps

Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery Corps

Redesignated 3 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort H.G. Wright [New York]

Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1917 as Battery E, 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps

Reorganized and redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery E, 52d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)

Reorganized and redesignated 26 March 1918 as the 1st Battery, Howitzer Regiment, 30th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps

Reorganized and redesignated 7 August 1918 as Battery E, 44th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)

Inactivated 31 August 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina

(Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 12th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)

Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 44th Coast Artillery

Redesignated 13 January 1941 as Battery E, 54th Coast Artillery

Activated 10 February 1941 at Camp Wallace, Texas

Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1944 as Battery A, 607th Coast Artillery Battalion

Disbanded 31 July 1944 at Camp Rucker, Alabama

Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Infantry Division

Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division

Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 1 September 1958 in Germany

Inactivated 10 August 1960 in Germany

Redesignated 30 December 1965 as the 1st Battalion, 44th Artillery

Activated 1 March 1966 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery

Inactivated 30 June 1980 in Korea

Assigned 16 March 1988 to the 9th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 16 February 1991 as Battery E, 44th Air Defense Artillery; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division and assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade (remainder of battalion inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington)

Battery E, 44th Air Defense Artillery, relieved 16 July 1992 from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade

Inactivated 15 February 1994 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Redesignated 16 January 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery; battalion concurrently assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

ANNEX

Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery D, 47th Field Artillery

Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 17 December 1941 as Battery A, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Motorized Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division)

Inactivated 18 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina

Activated 15 January 1947 at Fort Ord, California

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War I
* Champagne-Marne
* St. Mihiel
* Lorraine 1918
   Alsace 1918
* Champagne 1918

World War II
* Normandy (with arrowhead)
* Northern France
* Rhineland
* Ardennes-Alsace
* Central Europe
   Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead)
   Northern Solomons
   Eastern Mandates
   Leyte
   Ryukyus

Korean War
   UN Defensive
   UN Offensive
   CCF Counteroffensive
   First UN Counteroffensive
   CCF Spring Offensive
   UN Summer-Fall Offensive
   Second Korean Winter
   Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
   Third Korean Winter
   Korea, Summer 1953

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

DECORATIONS

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ST. LO

* Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967

* Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered QUANG TRI-THUA THIEN

* Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1978-1980

* 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

   Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971

   Battery A additionally entitled to:

•    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Navy), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968