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23rd Field Artillery Battalion
Active 1921
Country United States
Branch Army
Type Field artillery
Motto(s) none

The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the regular Army

History[]


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Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23rd Field Artillery.

Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23rd Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).

Battery A activated 1 March 1936 in the Philippine Islands; remainder of battalion 14 March 1941. By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).[1]

  • Surrendered 6 May 1942 to the Japanese forces in the Philippines Islands.

Reorganized and redesignated 23rd Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division (United States) 6 April 1946

Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2nd Battalion 23rd Field Artillery consolidated with the 23rd Field Artillery Battalion in 1949.

Disbanded 25 March 1952.

Campaign streamers[]

World War II

  • Philippine Islands

Decorations[]

  • Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered BATAAN
  • Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered LUZON 1941-1942
  • Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES
  • Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 7 DECEMBER 1941 TO 10 MAY 1942

Current units[]

unit broken up

Coat of arms[]

none

  • The 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion's coat of arms was reassigned to the 23rd in 1955.

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References[]

PD-icon This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry website http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry/ArmyDUISSICOA/ArmyHeraldryUnit.aspx?u=220.

  1. Morton, Louis "The Fall of the Philippines" pp.24-27.

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