23rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States)
# 23rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States)

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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.

## Lineage

Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23d Field Artillery.

    Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23d Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).

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).

* Surrendered 6 May 1942 to the Japanese forces in the Philippines Islands.

Reorganized and redesignated 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946

    Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2d Battalion, 23d Field Artillery consolidated with the 23d Field Artillery Battalion in 1949.

Disbanded 25 March 1952.

## Campaign streamers

World War II

* Philippine Islands

## Decorations

* Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered BATAAN
* Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered LUZON 1941-1942
* Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES
* Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 7 DECEMBER 1941 TO 10 MAY 1942

## Current units

unit broken up

## Coat of arms

none

* The 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion's coat of arms was reassigned to the 23rd in 1955.
