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Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery
B, 27th Field Artillery, as an element of the 9th Division
Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Demobilized 8 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as
Battery B, 27th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division
(27th Field Artillery relieved 1 October 1933 from
assignment to the 9th Division)
Redesignated 15 July 1940 as Battery B, 27th Field
Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as an element
of the 1st Armored Division
Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Battery B, 27th Armored
Field Artillery Battalion
Converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Troop B, 27th
Constabulary Squadron, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored
Division
Inactivated 20 December 1948 in Germany; concurrently,
converted and redesignated as Battery B, 27th Armored Field Artillery
Battalion, an element of the 1st Armored Division
Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana,
and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
Redesignated 30 August 1957 as Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 27th Artillery (organic
elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion assigned 1 October 1957 to the 3d Armored
Division and activated in Germany using personnel and equipment from the
67th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Redesignated 1 October 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 27th
Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 27th
Field Artillery
Inactivated 1988 in Germany with all personnel and
equipment being transferred to the 2d Battalion, 82d Field Artillery
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