Coast Artillery Lineage
After World War I the unit was redesignated and reorganized as a Coast Artillery unit. The coast Artillery section of the lineage is given below. There is some evidence in the New York annual report from 1941 that, like many units of the 1930s, it was underfunded and did not receive any antiaircraft weapons until its mobilization for World War II. After mobilization training the unit was deployed to Hawaii, and eventually Okinawa.
- Constituted in the New York National Guard as 369th Coast Artillery (AA)(Coast Artillery Corps) on 11 October 1921 as follows-
- HHB from HHB 369th Infantry Regiment
- 1st Battalion from 1st Battalion 369th Infantry
- 2nd Battalion from 2nd Battalion 369th infantry
Inducted into federal service 13 January 1941 at New York City.
Regiment broken up 12 December 1943 as Follows-
- HHB as 369th AntiAircraft Artillery Group (disbanded November 1944)
- 1st battalion as 369th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (semi Mobile) (Colored) (See 369th Sustainment Brigade (United States)).
- 2nd Battalion as 870th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. (see 970th Field Artillery Battalion.)
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