23rd Field Artillery Regiment (PS)

23rd Field Artillery Battalion
Active	1921
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States
Branch	Field Artillery
Type	Combat arms
Patron	Saint Barbara
Motto	none
Branch color	Scarlet

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The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a Field Artillery battalion of the regular Army

Contents 1 History 2 Lineage 3 Campaign streamers 4 Decorations 5 Current units 6 Coat of arms 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

History

Lineage

Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23rd Field Artillery.

Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23rd Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).

Battery A activated 1 March 1936 in the Philippine Islands; remainder of battalion 14 March 1941. By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).^[1]

• Surrendered 6 May 1942 to the Japanese forces in the Philippines Islands.

Reorganized and redesignated 23rd Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division (United States) 6 April 1946

Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2nd Battalion 23rd Field Artillery consolidated with the 23rd Field Artillery Battalion in 1949.

Disbanded 25 March 1952.

Campaign streamers

World War II

• Philippine Islands

Decorations

• Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered BATAAN
• Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered LUZON 1941-1942
• Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES
• Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 7 DECEMBER 1941 TO 10 MAY 1942

Current units

unit broken up

Coat of arms

none

• The 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalions Coat of Arms was reassigned to the 23rd in 1955.

See also

• Field Artillery Branch (United States)
• U.S. Army Regimental System
• Coats of arms of U.S. Artillery Regiments
• Coats of arms of U.S. Air Defense Artillery Regiments

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Institute of Heraldry.

• Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from ..., Volume 1 By Francis Bernard Heitman [1]
• Encyclopedia of United States Army insignia and uniforms By William K. Emerson (page 51).[2]
• [3] lineage

External links

• http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/av/default.htm