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The 103rd Field Artillery Regiment (103rd FAR) is a regiment of the United States Army. The only currently existing component is the 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment (1-103rd FAR), a unit of the Rhode Island National Guard. The regiment was originally constituted in 1917, but it descends from predecessor units dating back to 1801.
The 43rd Infantry Division was a formation of the United States Army from 1920 to 1963, serving in the Pacific during World War II.It was activated in 1920 as a National Guard Division in Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
During World War II, the majority of the Rhode Island National Guard units belonged to the 43d Infantry Division under General Douglas MacArthur for service in the Southwest Pacific, fighting in the New Guinea, Northern Solomons, and Luzon campaigns. Units which served with the 43d Infantry Division included the 103d and 169th Field Artillery ...
The field artillery brigade headquarters and headquarters battery became the headquarters and headquarters battery of the division artillery. Its three field artillery regiments were reorganized into four battalions; one battalion was taken from each of the two 75 mm gun regiments to form two 105 mm howitzer battalions, the brigade's ammunition ...
1st Field Artillery Regiment. 4th Battalion is the cannon battalion assigned to the 3rd Armored BCT, 1st Armored Division, stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas [1] 2nd Field Artillery Regiment. 2nd Battalion is a training support battalion assigned to the 428th Field Artillery Brigade, stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma [2] 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
Rhode Island National Guard (1928). Outline History of the 243rd Coast Artillery (HD). East Greenwich, Rhode Island: The Greenwich Press, Inc. Schroder, Walter K. (1980). Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II. East Greenwich, RI: Rhode Island Publications Society. ISBN 0-917012-22-4. Stanton, Shelby L. (1991). World War II Order of ...
In Rhode Island the improvements were modest, being limited to repairs at Fort Wolcott and Fort Adams. In the Secretary of War's report for 1811 Fort Dumpling was noted as incomplete, and Fort Greene was "in a state of ruin". [25] Rhode Island was not attacked in the War of 1812. State troops were mobilized to garrison Fort Adams and Fort ...
In the Second World War a peak strength of over 3,000 soldiers were assigned to the Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay. In September 1940 the 243rd Coast Artillery Regiment of the Rhode Island National Guard was mobilized and sent to Fort Adams to reinforce the Regular Army's 10th Coast Artillery Regiment.