3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment

History

World War I

Interwar

World War II

Cold War

Global War on Terror

Lineage & Honors

Lineage

• Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery, an element of the 82nd Division
• Organized 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
• Demobilized 26 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
• Reconstituted 5 June 1930 in the Organized Reserves and consolidated with Battery C, 321st Field Artillery ; consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery, an element of the 82nd Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery Battalion
• Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery C, 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division
• Disbanded 4 September 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
• Reconstituted 1 March 1957 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, and consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, and element of the 101st Airborne Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1957 as Battery C, 321st Artillery
• Relieved 21 January 1964 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division
• Inactivated 3 February 1964 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
• Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery C, 321st Field Artillery
• Redesignated 28 February 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery; Headquarters concurrently transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
• Inactivated 15 January 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
• Withdrawn 16 January 1996 from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

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• Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as part of the 307th Ammunition Train, an element of the 82nd Division
• Organized in October 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
• Demobilized 23 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
• Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as part of the 307th Ammunition Train, an element of the 82nd Division
• Organized in January 1922 at Newberry, South Carolina
• Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery B, 907th Field Artillery Battalion
• Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
• Inactivated 30 November 1945 in Germany
• Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Battery C, 518th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion
• Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Inactivated 1 April 1949 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Activated 25 August 1950 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Inactivated 1 December 1953 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
• Activated 15 May 1954 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
• Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Battery C, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division

  Campaign Participation Credit

• World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
• World War II: Normandy ; Rhineland ; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
• War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

  Decorations

• Presidential Unit Citation for BASTOGNE
• French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY
• Belgian Fourragere 1940
• *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM AND GERMANY
• Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm for BASTOGNE; cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Bastogne
• Netherlands Orange Lanyard

Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

Coat of arms