Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
40th Field Artillery Regiment. 1st Battalion is a basic combat training battalion, assigned to the 434th Field Artillery Brigade, stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma [15] 41st Field Artillery Regiment. 1st Battalion is the cannon battalion assigned to the 1st Armored BCT, 3rd Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia; 77th Field ...
"Combat Command B. 7th Armored Division, composed of the following units: Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 17th Tank Battalion; 31st Tank Battalion; 23d Armored Infantry Battalion; 38th Armored Infantry Battalion; 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron Mechanized (less Troop D); 275th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; 434th Armored Field ...
The 87th was moving into Germany when, on 16 December 1944, German Field Marshal Von Rundstedt launched his offensive in the Ardennes forest (Battle of the Bulge). The Division was placed in SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) reserve, 24–28 December, then thrown into the Bulge battle in Belgium, 29 December.
An armored brigade combat team consists of seven battalions: three combined arms battalions, one cavalry (reconnaissance) squadron, one artillery battalion, one engineer battalion and one brigade support battalion. As of 2014, the armored brigade combat team is the largest brigade combat team formation with 4,743 soldiers. Prior to 2012, the ...
The Field Artillery Branch is the field artillery branch of the United States Army.This branch, alongside the infantry and cavalry branches, was formerly considered to be one of the "classic" combat arms branches (defined as those branches of the army with the primary mission of engaging in armed combat with an enemy force), but is today included within the "Maneuver, Fires and Effects" (MFE ...
Enlisted cadre from 18th Provisional Antitank Battalion (77th and 142nd Field Artillery Regiments and 71st, 72nd, and 83rd Field Artillery Battalions); officer cadre from 77th, 142nd, and 349th Field Artillery Regiments 819th: 1 June 1942, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas: 2 November 1945, Palau: 21: M10: Cadre from 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion 820th
They were divided into light artillery (75-mm to 105-mm), medium artillery (115-mm to 155-mm) and heavy artillery (155-mm to 240-mm). Due to the critical supply of ammunition in Europe, the field artillery even converted some battalions and batteries to various German and French cannons in order to benefit from the captured ammunition stocks. [27]
The 76th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army.First formed as a cavalry regiment in 1916, the regiment was converted to field artillery in 1917, and served in Europe during World War I with the 3rd Division and as a separate battalion during World War II, as well as in peacetime at Fort Knox, KY, and Fort Devens, MA.