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3d Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery

  • Constituted 18 June 1861 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 5th Regiment of Artillery
  • Organized 14 June 1961 at Fort Greble, Pennsylvania
  • Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 50th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 50th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated in July 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Levert [Maine]
  • Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 9th Company, Coast Defenses of Portland
  • Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 50th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery B, 5th Coast Artillery, and inactivated in the Coast defense of Portland
  • Activated 15 January 1941 at Fort Wadsworth, New York
  • Inactivated 19 April 1944 at Camp Rucker, Alabama
  • Disbanded 26 June 1944
  • Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army
  • Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Missile Battalion, 5th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
  • Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Bedford, Massachusetts
  • (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Missile Battalion, 5th Artillery, consolidated 26 August 1960 with Battery A, 5th Field Artillery Battalion [constituted in 1861], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Missile Battalion, 5th Artillery)
  • Redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 3d Battalion, 5th Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery A, 5th Field Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 3d battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery (former Battery A, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, concurrently designated as 3d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery–hereafter separate lineage)
  • 3d Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery, inactivated 13 September 1972 at Coventry, Rhode Island
  • Activated 1989 and assigned to the 3d Armored Division in Germany using personnel and equipment from the 3d Battalion, 61st Air Defense Artillery
  • Inactivated in Germany


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