5th Battalion 52d Air Defense Artillery (United States) - Lineage

Lineage

Organized 6 July 1916 in the Regular Army at Fort Washington, Maryland, as the 1st Company, Fort Washington

Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1917 as Battery I, 8th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps

Reorganized and redesignated 5 February 1918 as Battery I, 53d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)

Redesignated 15 July 1918 as Battery E, 52d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)

Inactivated 16 May 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia

Activated 18 August 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia

(Additionally designated 1 June 1922 as the 227th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation abolished 1 July 1924)

Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 52nd Coast Artillery

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1943 as Battery A, 285th Coast Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 5 May 1944 at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky

Disbanded 14 June 1944

Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army, consolidated with Battery A, 52d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 52d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division

Inactivated 5 June 1958 and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division

Withdrawn 18 May 1959 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Redesignated 1 December 1971 as the 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery

Redesignated 21 December 1975 as the 5th Battalion, 52d Air Defense Artillery; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army, assigned to the 24th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Inactivated 16 November 1988 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division

Activated 16 September 1996 at Fort Bliss, Texas