17th Airborne Division Artillery explained

Unit Name:	17th Airborne Division Artillery
Dates:	1942 - 46 1948 - 49
Country:	United States
Type:	Field artillery
Role:	Division artillery
Size:	Brigade
Command Structure:	17th Airborne Division
Equipment:	M1 75mm pack howitzer, M3 105mm howitzer
Commander1:	Joseph V. Phelps, 1942 - 46
Commander1 Label:	Commander

The 17th Airborne Division Artillery is an inactive field artillery unit of the United States Army, active from 1942 - 1946 and from 1948 - 1949. The unit served with the 17th Airborne Division in World War II, and saw action in Belgium and Germany, including participating in Operation Varsity. The unit was reactivated again from 1948 - 1949, but was not deployed.

History

17th Airborne Division Artillery
Date:	1942-1945
Parent:	17th Airborne Division
Subordinate:	Hq & Hqs Btry 466th Parachute FA Bn -Hqs & Svc Btry -Btry A -Btry B -Btry C -Btry D 680th Glider FA Bn -Hqs & Svc Btry -Btry A -Btry B 681st Glider FA Bn -Hqs & Svc Btry -Btry A -Btry B 464th Parachute FA Bn, assigned 1 March 1945 -Hqs & Svc Btry -Btry A -Btry B -Btry C -Btry D^[1]

Lineage and honors

Lineage

• Constituted 16 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Airborne Division Artillery.
• Activated 15 April 1943 at Camp Mackall, North Carolina.
• Inactivated 14 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts.
• Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army. Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Pickett, Virginia.
• Inactivated 10 June 1949 at Camp Pickett, Virginia.

Unofficial^[2]

Campaign participation credit

• World War II: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe (with arrowhead)

Unofficial

External links

• Facebook Page: 17th Airborne Scions Descendants
• Scions of the 17th Airborne - website for veterans of the division and their descendants

Notes and References

1. United States Army, "17th Airborne Division" (1944). World War Regimental Histories. Book 103. .
2. estimated from Web site: Airborne & Special Operations Museum - Unit Histories . Airborne and Special Operations Museum . dead . 23 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084501/http://www.asomf.org/rollcall/unithistories/ABNDivisions/17th_ABNDiv.htm . 4 March 2016 .