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The 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade was constituted on 1 January 1918, during World War I, in the National Army as Headquarters, 31st Heavy Artillery Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps at Key West, Fla. but would see numerous name changes over the lifetime of the unit.
The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft Artillery (part of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps until 1950, then part of the Artillery Branch) into a separate branch on 20 June 1968. On 1 December 1968, the ADA branch was authorized to wear modified Artillery insignia, crossed field guns with missile.
This list attempts to list the field artillery regiments of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps. As the U.S. Army field artillery evolved, regimental lineages of the artillery, including air defense artillery, coast artillery, and field artillery were intermingled. This list is only concerned with field artillery.
Two Patriot batteries from the 32nd Army Air Defense Command's 10th Air Defense Artillery Brigade were designated for airlift to Israel during the Gulf War. All of the American Patriot units that fought in DESERT STORM were drawn from the 11th Brigade and from several similar brigades of U.S. Army, Europe's 32nd Army Air Defense Command.
The 1st through 25th Infantry Divisions, excepting the 10th Mountain Division, were raised in the Regular Army or the Army of the United States prior to American involvement in World War II. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated.
In 1950 the Coast Artillery Corps and all Army harbor defense commands were dissolved. Today the Air Defense Artillery carries the lineage of some Coast Artillery units. [64] In the late 1940s antiaircraft gun sites were established in the US, first with 90 mm guns and later with 120 mm guns. In the Boston area some of these sites were at or ...
Each Air-defense Artillery regiment consists of a HQ battery, a logistic support battery and an air-defense group. Anti-aircraft Artillery Command, *1941 ; Anti-aircraft Artillery Training Regiment (Sabaudia) 4th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Peschiera", *1930 ; 17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca", *1888 (Sabaudia)
In June 1935, the unit was given the name "Coastal Artillery Unit", in July it was transferred to Hel and became part of the Coastal Artillery Cadre Battery, reorganized from the Coastal Artillery Company of the Navy. The unit consisted of 1 officer, 6 non-commissioned officers and 57 sailors. The unit took part in assembling the guns on their ...