[MV] Yes Virginia, there WAS a 90th Field Artillery

Jim Rice (jimrice@sirinet.net)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:43:58 -0600

I just wanted to post this to correct the record on the 90th FA. They
served honorably in both WWII and Korea. Active until 1957. See
following for details.

Everything you wanted to know and more about the:

90th Field Artillery Battalion

Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 90th Field
Artillery

Redesignated 90th Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 25th
Division (subsequently the 25th Infantry Division), 26 August 1941

Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii

Inactivated 1 February 1957 in Hawaii

Campaign Streamers
WWII--Central Pacific/Guadalcanal/Luzon

Korean War--UN Defensive/UN Offensive/CCF Intervention/First UN
Counteroffensive/CCF Spring Offensive/UN Summer-Fall Offensive/ Second
Korean Winter/Korea, summer-fall 1952/Third Korean Winter/Korea, summer
1953

Decorations:
Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON,

Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer Embroidered PANMUNJOM

Phillipine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 October
1944
to 4 July 1945

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer Embroidered
MASAN-CHINJU
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer Embroidered
MUNSAN-NI

MAJ James "Jim" E. Rice
Battalion Executive Officer
2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery
Fort Sill, Oklahoma 73503
(580) 442-2803/3265
DSN 639-2803/3265
RiceJ@DOIMEX2.SILL.ARMY.MIL

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