509th Armored Field Artillery

Brief History

  • Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 1st Battalion, 40th Field Artillery and assigned to the 14th Division
  • Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Custer, Michigan
  • Demobilized 6 February 1919 at Camp Custer
  • Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army
  • Activated 4 June 1941 at camp Roberts, California
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1943 as the 974th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Inactivated 10 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
  • Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 509th Field Artillery battalion
  • Redesignated 25 June 1948 as the 509th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
  • Assigned 30 July 1948 to the 3d Armored Division and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky
  • Relieved 1 October 1957 from the 3d Armored Division and inactivated in Germany with all personnel and Equipment being transferred to the 2d Field Artillery Battalion, 73d Artillery
  • Consolidated 16 September 1962 with the 40th Artillery


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