1st Battalion (Air Assault) - 377th Field Artillery Regiment
The mission of the 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery, is to, on order, deploy via air, land, or sea to provide air assault capable artillery fire support to the XVIII airborne corps during contingency operations.
The history of the 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment begins with its constitution and organization as Battery A, 377th Field Artillery, an element of the 101st Division at Green Bay, WI, in 1921.
The unit was redesignated as Battery A, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion in 1942. During World War II, the unit participated at Normandy, the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and in Central Europe earning two Presidential Unit Citations along with both the French and Belgium Croix de Guerre with Palm. The unit was inactivated at the conclusion of World War II in France, and from 1948 through 1956 went through many reorganizations and redesignations.
In 1957 the unit was reorganized and redesignated as Battery A, 377th Artillery and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. The unit was inactivated in 1965 at Camp Campbell, KY, and was then again activated in 1968 in Vietnam. While assigned to the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam the unit participated in the Counteroffensive Phase VI and VII, Tet 69 Counteroffensive and Consolidation I and II. The Unit earned two republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm and Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class Streamer.
Redesignated in 1971 as Battery A, 377th Field Artillery, the unit was inactivated at Fort Campbell, KY, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division.
On 16 January, 1996 the unit was activated at Fort Bragg, NC, and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment (Air Assault).
