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Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 40th Artillery Group; 509th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; and the 510th Field Artillery Rocket Battalion consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 16 September 1962 as the 40th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 40th Field Artillery
In the early hours of May 31, the VC 40th Battalion resumed its attack on South Vietnamese positions in Phước Lộc, but the ARVN 2nd Battalion and 3rd Marine Battalion put up stiff resistance. After several hours of fierce fighting, the VC recaptured Phước Lộc where they found the bodies of 94 dead South Vietnamese soldiers. [24]
After the 2nd Battalion, 47th Regiment, finished refitting at the Division base camp, he planned to send it north to replace the 1st Battalion, 40th Regiment which would then become Division reserve. With only two regiments available and no reserve, General Niem decided on 17 March he could not open the An Khê Pass and ordered his battalions ...
1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry [2]: 132 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry [2]: 132 moved to Sông Bé and would stay here until March 1971. Other units stationed at Sông Bé included: 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery (1970) [2]: 101 2nd Battalion, 40th Artillery (1968) [2]: 104 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery [2]: 106 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry [3]
Division Artillery 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; 2d Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; 3d Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; 4th Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; 5th Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; Division Support Command 40th Medical Battalion; 40th Maintenance Battalion; 123d Maintenance Company; 40th Supply and Transportation Battalion
A year and a half later, the Second was once again reorganized and re-designated the Second Field Artillery Battalion. 2nd Field Artillery Battalion moved to New Post Fort Sill in 1953, and an effort was made to give morale a boost. It was decided that the Unit Crest, a Mule with a Mountain Gun, should be reproduced in real life.
The 5th Marine Regiment minus its 2nd Battalion, an experienced force that had fought in Vietnam since their arrival in mid-1966, was assigned to the valley in 1967 to support the outnumbered Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces in the area, the 6th ARVN Regiment and the 1st Ranger Group.
On 6 June the garrison at Toumorong was relieved and withdrawn while the 1/327th and Company A 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment and Battery B 2nd Battalion, 320th Artillery Regiment remained at Toumorong and in the surrounding area. [1]: 3 [2]: 277–9