3d Battalion, 77th Field Artillery History
    Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Troops I and K, 19th Cavalry. Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. Consolidated, converted, and redesignated 1 November 1917 as Battery E, 77th Field Artillery. (77th Field Artillery assigned 19 November 1917 to the 4th Division.) Inactivated 21 September 1921 at Camp Lewis, Washington. (77th Field Artillery relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved I January 1930 from assignment to the 7th Division.) Activated 1 May 1939 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (77th Field Artillery relieved l6 October 1939 from assignment to the 4th Division.) Redesignated 1 April 1940 as Battery C, 77th Field Artillery. 
Reorganized and redesignated 24 February 1944 as Battery C, 634th Field Artillery Battalion. Redesignated 15 May 1945 as Battery C, 77th Field Artillery Battalion. Inactivated 4 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Disbanded 1 August 1946. 
    Reconstituted 27 June 1958 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 77th Artillery. Redesignated 31 March 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Howitzer Battalion, 77th Artillery; concurrently, withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 63d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted). Battalion activated I May 1959 with Headquarters at Van Nuys, California. Redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 3d Battalion, 77th Artillery. Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Van Nuys, California, and relieved from assignment to the 63d Infantry Division. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 77th Field Artillery.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War I     *Naples-Foggia
    *Aisne-Marne     *Anzio
    *St Mihiel     *Rome-Arno
    *Meuse-Argonne     *Southern France (with arrowhead)
    *Champaigne 1918       North Apinnies
    *Lorraine 1918     *Rhineland
    *Ardennes-Alsace
World War II     *Central Europe
    *Sicily (with arrowhead)       Po Valley

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