Lineages
and Honors of the California National Guard
Engineer Brigade, 40th Infantry
Division
Headquarters and Headquarters
Company
Organized 3 August 1917 in the California National Guard at Santa
Barbara as Battery C, 2d Field Artillery Regiment
Drafted into Federal service 5 August
1917
Reorganized and redesignated 24 September
1917 as Battery C, 144th Field Artillery, an element of the 40th
Division
Demobilized 29 January 1919 at San Francisco
Reorganized and Federally recognized 27
May 1930 in the California National Guard at Santa Barbara as
Battery E, 143d Field Artillery
Redesignated 14 April 1936 as Battery
C, 196th Field Artillery
Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated
1 July 1936 as the 2d Battalion, 144th Field Artillery; expanded,
reorganized, and, redesignated 21 August 1940 as the 144th Field
Artillery with Headquarters at Santa Barbara
Battery C, 144th Field Artillery, inducted,
into Federal service 3 February 1941 at Santa Barbara (remainder
of regiment - hereafter separate lineage)
Reorganized and, redesignated, 8 February
1943 as Battery C, 980th Field Artillery Battalion
lnactivated 13 November 1945 at Camp Myles
Standish, Massachusetts
Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 at Santa
Barbara as Headquarters Battery. 981st Field Artillery Battalion;
Service Battery, 981st Field Artillery Battalion, organized and
Federally recognized 3 March 1947 at Santa Barbara
Headquarters Battery and Service Battery,
981st Field Artillery Battalion, ordered into active Federal
service 1 September 1950 at Santa Barbara
(Headquarters Battery and Service Battery,
981st Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS], organized and' Federally
recognized 2 September 1952 At Santa Barbara)
Released 30 June 1954 from active Federal
service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently
withdrawn from Headquarters Battery and, Service Battery, 951st
Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1954
as Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 225th Armored Field
Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1959
as Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 1st Rocket Howitzer
Battalion, 144th Artillery, elements of the 40th Armored Division
Headquarters Battery and Service Battery
consolidated 1 March 1963 and consolidated' unit recognized and
redesignated as Headquarters and Service Battery, 1st Battalion,
144th Artillery, an element of the 40th Armored Division
Reorganized and redesignated 29 January
1968 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 144th Artillery,
an element of the 40th Armored Brigade
Redesignated 1 May 1972 as Headquarters
Battery, 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery
Relieved 13 January 1974 from assignment
to the 40th Armored Brigade and assigned to the 40th lnfantry
Division
Converted and' redesignated' 1 December 1993 as Headquarters
and Headquarters Company, Engineer Brigade, 40th lnfantry Division
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Campaign
Participation Credit
World War I
Streamer without inscription
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
Korean War
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian
Army for action along the MEUSE RIVER
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation,
Streamer embroidered KOREA
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
HAROLD W. NELSON
Brigadier General, USA
Chief of Military History
15 June 1994
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