39th FIELD ARTILLERY

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 39th Field Artillery and assigned to the 13th
Division

Organized 9 August 1918 at Camp Lewis, Washington

Demobilized 26 February 1919 at Camp Lewis, Washington

Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 39th Field Artillery

Redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 39th Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 3d Division (later
redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division), and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington 

Relieved 1 July 1957 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; concurrently reorganized and
redesignated as the 39th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 39th Field Artillery

Withdrawn 16 August 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the
United States Army Regimental System

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II 
Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead) 
Tunisia 
Sicily (with arrowhead) 
Naples-Foggia 
Anzio (with arrowhead) 
Rome-Arno 
Southern France (with arrowhead) 
Rhineland 
Ardennes-Alsace 
Central Europe

Korean War 
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

Vietnam 
Summer-Fall 1969 
Winter-Spring 1970 
Sanctuary Counteroffensive 
Counteroffensive, Phase VII 
Consolidation I 
Consolidation II

Southwest Asia 
Defense of Saudi Arabia 
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait 
Cease-Fire

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Fourragere

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE

Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA