49th Field Artillery Battalion (United States)

U.S. Field Artillery Regiments
43rd Field Artillery	73rd Field Artillery

49th Field Artillery Battalion
49th Field Artillery Battalion
Active	1933
Country	United States
Branch	Field Artillery Branch, United States Army
Motto(s)	Iterum iterumque (Again and again)

The 49th Field Artillery Battalion was a battalion of the Field Artillery Branch of the United States Army.

Lineage[]

Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 49th Field Artillery.

Redesignated as the 49th Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Ord, California 1 June 1941.

Inactivated 20 July 1947 at Seoul, Korea.

Activated 20 March 1949 at Jimmachi, Honshu, Japan. (49th Coast Artillery Battalion consolidated with the 49th Field Artillery Battalion 28 June 1950).

Relieved from the 7th Infantry Division and inactivated in Korea 1 July 1957

Consolidated with the 44th Field Artillery, 7 November 1969.

Coat of arms[]

Shield

Per Chevron enhanced gules and argent, on the last a bear's head erased and incensed proper.

Crest

None

Background

The scarlet is the Field Artillery, The silver of the shield in conjunction with the scarlet is indicative of the preparedness of the battalion night and day. The firing functions are allegorically illustrated by the incensed bear's head, being representative of the state of activation, California, taken from the crest of that state.

Campaign streamers[]

World War I

St. Mihiel
Alsace 1918
Lorraine 1918

World War II

Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead)
Northern Solomons
Eastern Mandates
Leyte
Ryukyus (with arrowhead)

Korean War

UN defense
UN offensive
CCF intervention
First UN counteroffensive
CCF Spring offensive
UN summer-fall offensive
Second Korean winter
Korea summer-fall 1952
Third Korean winter
Korea summer 1953

Decorations[]

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA

References[]

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.

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