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The shield is the shoulder patch of the 3rd Division, the bend and bendlets are from the arms of Champagne. The canton indicates the parentage of the regiment. The fishhook and Star are from the coat of arms of the 5th Field Artillery; the union battle line of Gettysburg was in the shape of a fishhook and the corps badge of Slocum's 12th Corps ...
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery F, 14th Field Artillery. Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (14th Field Artillery assigned 15 December 1922 to the 6th Division; relieved 7 September 1927 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division.)
The Second’s mission was to provide general support for the XIII and XIX Corps, North Army and to reinforce the fires of the 5th Armored Division and the 29th and 102nd Infantry Division. The end of World War II found the Second Field Artillery Battalion attached to the 70th Infantry Division.
A Harvest of Death, 1863.. A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863.It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield.
The battalion was reactivated and assigned to the 6th Infantry Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for a brief period in 1967–68. The battalion was reactivated again in 1983 in Germany, serving with the 42nd Field Artillery Brigade there. In 1992, the battalion was reassigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and joined the 17th Field Artillery Brigade.
The 1st Battalion, 83rd Artillery was formed in 1966 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [1] The battalion departed for Vietnam in October 1966 and remained there until 1971 when the unit was stood down. In Vietnam, the 83rd was originally at Bear Cat, Nui Dat and Xuân Lộc but later moved to many other locations in Vietnam.
Another special detachment is the Field Artillery Half Section, an eight-man group representative of the "flying artillery" which was drawn by a team of horses (the Half Section has eight horses – all named after former commanding generals of Fort Sill) around the turn of the 20th century.
The regiment conducted annual summer training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The 160th Field Artillery Regiment was disbanded in 1942 when the division was "triangularized" and 1st Battalion became the 160th Field Artillery Battalion, while the 2nd Battalion was renamed the 171st Artillery Battalion. The 160th FA saw action in both World War II and Korea.