23rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States) explained

Unit Name:	23rd Field Artillery Battalion
Dates:	1921
Branch:	Army
Type:	Field artillery
Garrison Label:	Home station
Motto:	none

The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the regular Army, constituted as a US-manned unit in 1921, but redesignated as a Philippine Scouts unit in 1930.

Lineage

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

Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23d 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 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946

Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2d Battalion, 23d Field Artillery consolidated with the 23d 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.

References

http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/fa/default.htm lineage

External links

http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/av/default.htm

Notes and References

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