title: 23rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States)
text: # 23rd Field Artillery Regiment (United States)
  
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  The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the regular Army, constituted as a US-manned unit in 1921, but redesignated as a Philippine Scouts unit in 1930.
  
  ## Lineage
  
  Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23d Field Artillery.
  
      Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23d Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).
  
  Battery A activated 1 March 1936 in the Philippine Islands; remainder of battalion 14 March 1941. By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).
  
  * Surrendered 6 May 1942 to the Japanese forces in the Philippines Islands.
  
  Reorganized and redesignated 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946
  
      Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2d Battalion, 23d Field Artillery consolidated with the 23d Field Artillery Battalion in 1949.
  
  Disbanded 25 March 1952.
  
  ## Campaign streamers
  
  World War II
  
  * Philippine Islands
  
  ## Decorations
  
  * Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered BATAAN
  * Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered LUZON 1941-1942
  * Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES
  * Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 7 DECEMBER 1941 TO 10 MAY 1942
  
  ## Current units
  
  unit broken up
  
  ## Coat of arms
  
  none
  
  * The 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion's coat of arms was reassigned to the 23rd in 1955.
  