135th Field Artillery Brigade

135th Field Artillery 135FABdeSSI.gif 200 px 1917-2008 United States Missouri Army National Guard Field Artillery Brigade Sedalia, Missouri World War I Meuse-Argonne Alsace Lorraine 125px 135th Field Artillery Brigade DUI 200px 135th Field Artillery Brigade Flag The 135th Field Artillery Brigade was a unit of the Missouri National Guard. The unit had a long lineage that began in May 1917 as the 5th Separate Company of Infantry from Sedalia, Missouri.McKenney Janice Army Lineage Series: Field Artillery Part 1 December 8, 2009 CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY 978-1780396446 Washington, DC 166-167 The unit was redesignated as D Company, 6th Infantry Regiment and entered into federal service in August 1917. Reorganized as D Company, 140th Infantry Regiment,1920 Full text of "From Doniphan to Verdun: the official history of the 140th infantry" https://archive.org/stream/fromdoniphantove00edwa/fromdoniphantove00edwa_djvu.txt 35th Infantry Division in May 1919 at Ft. Riley, Kansas. The unit participated in the Meuse-Argonne, Alsace, and Lorraine campaigns of World War I. In 1920, the unit would finally become an artillery unit - D Battery, 1st Battalion Field Artillery. In 1921, it would be moved to the 128th Field Artillery.Clay Steven U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941, Volume 2. Cavalry, Field Artillery, and Coast Artillery 2010 Combat Studies Institute Press Fort Leavenworth 815 In 1926, the unit was reorganized as Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 128th Field Artillery. The unit would be federalized in November 1940 and inactivated in 1942. It would be redesignated in 1948 as C Battery, 128th Field Artillery of the 35th Infantry Division. In 1959, it was again reorganized as Headquarters Battery, 2nd Howitzer Battalion, 128th Artillery of the 35th Infantry Division. In 1963, reorganized again as Headquarters Battery, 135th Artillery Group and finally in 1978 as Headquarters Battery of the 135th Artillery Brigade. The Brigade was deactivated in 2008. References Category:Field artillery units and formations of the United States Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1917 Category:Brigades of the United States Army