4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (United States)

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4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Active	1821-06-01 - Present
Country	USA
Branch	Regular Army
Type	Air Defense Artillery
Size	Regiment
Motto	NULLI VESTIGIA RETRORSUM (No Step Backward)

The 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment was constituted 1821-06-01 in the Regular Army as the 4th Regiment of Artillery and organized from new and existing units with Headquarters at Pensacola, Florida. As a result of the division of the Artillery Corps into the Coast, and Field Artillery Corps, the Regiment was broken up 1901-02-13, and its elements reorganized and redesignated as separate numbered companies and batteries of the Artillery Corps.

Contents 1 4th Coast Artillery Regiment 2 4th Coast Artillery Battalion 3 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group 4 4th Air Defense Artillery 4.1 HHB, 4th AntiAircraft Artillery Group 4.2 3/95th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA)(Semimobile) 5 Honors 5.1 Campaign Participation Credit 5.2 Decorations 6 Commemorations 7 References 8 Sources 9 External links

[edit] 4th Coast Artillery Regiment

The regiment was reconstituted on the 1924-07-01 in the Regular Army as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment. As a result of inter-war reductions in military appropriations, the following reductions and increases in the force levels affected this regiment:

Activated (less Batteries B, E, and F) 1924-08-18 in the Canal Zone.

(Battery C inactivated 1926-07-31 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;

Batteries B, C, and F activated 1932-04-15 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;

Battery E activated 1938-02-01 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;

Battery O activated 1940-03-15 in the Canal Zone;

Batteries M and N activated 1940-10-14 in the Canal Zone;

Battery L activated 1941-01-27 in the Canal Zone)

The Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) was disbanded 1944-10-03 in the Canal Zone. Afterwards, the regiment underwent more changes with its Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Regiment, reorganized and redesignated 1944-11-01 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Group. The remainder of the regimental assets were used to organize the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion.

• Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) reconstituted 1944-10-12 in the Regular Army, concurrently consolidated with the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (constituted 1944-10-03 in the Army of the United States) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion;

Activated 1944-11-01 in the Canal Zone

Disbanded (less Batteries A and D) 1946-02-01 in the Canal Zone (Batteries A and D concurrently redesignated as Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa;

inactivated 1947-01-15 and 1950-05-15, respectively, in the Canal Zone) 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (less Batteries A and D) :reconstituted 1950-06-28 in the Regular Army; concurrently, battalion and Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, redesignated as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery)

• Remainder of the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment reorganized 1951-06-28 as follows:
• 1st Battalion consolidated with the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see below) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion

Redesignated 1950-07-31 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Inactivated [[1957-06-16 June 1957 in England

• 2d Battalion redesignated as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 1952-03-13 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion

Activated 1952-05-08 at Fort Lewis, Washington

Redesignated 1953-05-01 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 1957-12-20 at Phantom Lake, Washington

• 3d Battalion redesignated as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 1951-04-01 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Redesignated 1953-08-03 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 1955-03-22 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion

Inactivated 1958-09-01 at Niagara Falls, New York

[edit] 4th Coast Artillery Battalion

As the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion, it was reorganized and redesignated 1945-01-02 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, but was inactivated on 1947-01-15 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone.

[edit] 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group

Consolidated again on 1950-06-28 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group (see below), the regiment was again consolidated as a unit and designated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group activated 1951-09-01 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska, and inactivated 1958-01-15 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska

Under the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS) the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group was consolidated and reorganized to include:

4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion;

20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion;

44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion;

[edit] 4th Air Defense Artillery

The 4th Field Artillery Battalion (organized in 1907) consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 1958-09-01 as the 4th Artillery Regiment, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. The 4th Artillery Regiment (less former 4th Field Artillery Battalion) was again reorganized and redesignated 1971-09-01 as the 4th Air Defense Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former 4th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 4th Field Artillery Regiment — hereafter separate lineage)

• Withdrawn 1986-09-13 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.

[edit] HHB, 4th AntiAircraft Artillery Group

• Constituted 1942-08-05 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Group
• Activated 1942-08-24 at Camp Stewart, Georgia
• Group deployed 1943-02-07 for North Africa.
• Arrived in North Africa on 1943-02-21, and landed on Sicily during August of 1943, and moved on to Italy on 1943-10-26.
• Redesignated 1944-05-01 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
• Inactivated 1944-12-09 at Barberino, Italy, with the assets and personnel reassigned to the 1168th Combat Engineer Group.
• Reconstituted 1950-06-28 in the Regular Army

[edit] 3/95th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA)(Semimobile)

• Constituted 1940-12-16 in the Regular Army as the 95th Coast Artillery Regiment.
• Activated 1941-04-17 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
• Regiment Staged at Fort McDowell, California]] on 1941-12-21
• Regiment deployed to Hawaii from the San Francisco, Port Of Embarkation on 1941-12-26, and arrived in Hawaii on 1942-01-07.
• Regiment reorganized and redesignated 1943-12-12 as follows:

1/95th CAR became the 93rd AAA Gun Battalion, thereafter separate lineage.

2/95th CAR became the 752nd AAA Gun Battalion, thereafter separate lineage.

3/95th CAR became the 866th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion.

• Battalion arrived on the Philippines on 1944-10-20.
• Battalion arrived on Okinawa on 1945-04-26, where it remained into the Occupation period.
• Inactivated 1946-09-30 in the Philippine Islands
• Redesignated 1948-10-13 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
• Activated 1949-01-15 at Fort Bliss, Texas

[edit] Honors

[edit] Campaign Participation Credit

• War of 1812:

1. Louisiana 1815

• Indian Wars:

1. Creeks;
2. Seminoles;
3. Modocs;
4. Little Big Horn;
5. Nez Perces;
6. Bannocks

• Mexican War:

1. Palo Alto;
2. Resaca de la Palma;
3. Monterey;
4. Vera Cruz;
5. Cerro Gordo;
6. Contreras;
7. Chapultepec;
8. Tamaulipas 1846

• Civil War:

1. Peninsula;
2. Shiloh;
3. Valley;
4. Manassas;
5. Antietam;
6. Fredericksburg;
7. Murfreesborough;
8. Chancellorsville;
9. Gettysburg;
10. Chickamauga;
11. Chattanooga;
12. Wilderness;
13. Spotsylvania;
14. Cold Harbor;
15. Petersburg;
16. Shenandoah;
17. Nashville;
18. Appomattox;
19. Virginia 1861;
20. Virginia 1862;
21. Virginia 1863;
22. Virginia 1864;
23. Virginia 1865;
24. Mississippi 1862

• World War II:

1. American Theater, Streamer without inscription;
2. Tunisia;
3. Sicily;
4. Naples-Foggia;
5. Rome-Arno;
6. Leyte;
7. Ryukyus

• Vietnam (2nd (105mm howitzers, towed), 5th (155mm howitzers, self-propelled) and 8th Battalions (175mm gun, self-propelled), 4th Artillery)^[1]:

1. Counteroffensive, Phase II;
2. Counteroffensive, Phase III;
3. Tet Counteroffensive;
4. Counteroffensive, Phase IV;
5. Counteroffensive, Phase V;
6. Counteroffensive, Phase VI;
7. Tet 69/Counteroffensive;
8. Summer-Fall 1969;
9. Winter-Spring 1970;
10. Sanctuary Counteroffensive;
11. Counteroffensive, Phase VII;
12. Consolidation I

• Armed Forces Expeditions:

1. Grenada

• Southwest Asia:

1. Defense of Saudi Arabia;
2. Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

[edit] Decorations

• Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967
• Valorous Unit Award for SAIGON
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969
• Army Superior Unit Award for 1987

[edit] Commemorations

A 4th U.S. Artillery Regimental Brass Band exits that depicts the regimental band during the Civil War.[1]

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Stanton, Shelby L., Vietnam Order of Battle: A Complete Illustrated Reference to US Army, Stackpole Books, 2003

[edit] External links

4th Air Defense Artillery www.history.army.mil/lineage/branches/ada/0004ada.htm+4th+Air+Defense+Artillery+Regiment&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=au&client=firefox-a Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996 (cached)