6th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery
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Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery F, 29th Field Artillery, an element of the 10th Division. Organized 11 August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas. Demobilized 4 February 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas. Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery F, 29th Field Artillery. Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division).

Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion. (Battery C, 29th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion; inactivated 14 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina; activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California; inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.) Former Battery F, 29th Field Artillery, reconstituted 25 June 1958 in the Regular Army.

Redesignated 23 April 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 6th Howitzer Battalion, 29th Artillery, and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted). Battalion activated 6 May 1959 at Fort Lewis, Washington. Redesignated 1 October 1963 as the 6th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery. Inactivated 15 December 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 6th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery. Headquarters, Headquarters, and Service Battery, 6th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, redesignated 21 September 1978 as Battery F, 29th Field Artillery, assigned to the 1st Armored Division, and activated in Germany.

And, without "official" backup data from the Center of Military History, this is what happened, based upon searches of USAEUR Permanent Orders files:

Battery F (TAB), 29th Field Artillery was reorganized, reconstituted, and redesignated as Battery B, 25th Field Artillery.

2nd Battalion, 81st Field Artillery, in July 1984, was reorganized, reconstituted, and redesignated as 6th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, assigned to the 8th Infantry Division, based in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

Reorganized, and reconstituted in mid-1991,the 6th Battallion, 29th Field Artillery became a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) battalion.

Inactivated 15 July 1995. Redesignated on 16 July 1995, as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery (MLRS), and assigned to 1st Armored Division, and based in Baumholder, Germany.


KNOWN UNIT ATTACHMENTS

During Service In Vietnam

Bty A, 4-42 Arty Bty B, 4-42 Arty Bty B, 2-19 Arty
Bty D, 4-60 Arty One PLT, Bty B, 29 Arty    Bty A, 3-173 Abn Bde
Bty A, 2-17 Arty Bty C, 5-16 Arty Bty B, 1-92 Arty
Bty B, 2-17 Arty 2nd PLT, Bty D, 5-16 Arty Bty C, 7-15 Arty
One Section, Bty C, 8-15 Arty   Bty C, 7-15 Arty One Section, Bty A, 4-60 Arty
Bty A, 2-9 Arty Bty B, 2-9 Arty Bty C, 2-9 Arty
Bty D, 320 Arty

During Service In Germany

Bty C (TAB), 333 Arty


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