The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the regular Army, constituted as a US-manned unit in 1921, but redesignated as a Philippine Scouts unit in 1930.
23rd Field Artillery Battalion | |
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Active | 1921 |
Country | United States |
Branch | Army |
Type | Field artillery |
Motto(s) | none |
Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23d Field Artillery.
Battery A activated 1 March 1936 in the Philippine Islands; remainder of battalion 14 March 1941. By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).[1]
Reorganized and redesignated 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946
Disbanded 25 March 1952.
World War II
unit broken up
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry