Lineage
- Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery D, 42nd Field Artillery, an element of the 14th Division
- Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Custer, Michigan
- Demobilized 7 February 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan
- Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery D, 42nd Field Artillery.
- Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery Battalion. (Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery, redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division – later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 16 February 1946 at Fort Ord, California
- Consolidated 28 June 1950 with Battery A, 42nd Coast Artillery, and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery Battalion
- Former Battery D, 42nd Field Artillery, reconstituted 1 April 1957 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Howitzer Battalion, 42nd Artillery, activated 6 May 1959 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Redesignated 1 October 1963 as the 4th Battalion, 42nd Artillery
- Inactivated 15 December 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery
- Redesignated at Fort Hood, TX with the 4th Infantry Division 16 January 1996.
- Redesignated at Fort Carson, CO with the 4th Infantry Division June 2009
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