Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, 1st Battalion, 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 Headquarters
and Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 1st Battalion, 29th Field Artillery.
Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and Combat Train,
1st Battalion, 29th Field Artillery. Redesignated in December 1938 as Headquarters
and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 29th Field Artillery (Combat Train concurrently
seperated, later becoming Battery I, 29th Field Artillery). Activated 1 August 1940 at
Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the
4th Infantry Division).
Absorbed 1 October 1940 by Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 29th Field Artillery
Battalion. (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 29th Field Artillery, reorganized
and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 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
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, reconstituted
25 July 1958 in the Regular Army.
Redesignated 31 July 1959 as Battery G, 29th Artillery. Activated 5 October 1966 at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery G, 29th Field Artillery.
Inactivated 1 October 1971 in Vietnam. Assigned 21 December 1977 to the 2nd Armored
Division and activated at Fort Hood, Texas.
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