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13th Airborne Division Artillery

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Active
  
1943-46

Type
  
Field artillery

Size
  
Brigade

Branch
  
Army

Role
  
Division artillery

Country
  
United States of America

The 13th Airborne Division Artillery is an inactive field artillery unit of the United States Army, active from 1943-1946. The unit served with the 13th Airborne Division in World War II and deployed to France, but was not committed to combat, although the 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion saw action with the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team before its assignment to the division.

Lineage

  • Constituted 26 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 13th Airborne Division Artillery
  • Activated 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Inactivated 25 February 1946 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Unofficial; estimated from the lineage of the 13th Airborne Division, posted by the Airborne and Special Operations Museum at [1].

    References

    13th Airborne Division Artillery Wikipedia