1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Battalion, 76th
Field Artillery, "Duty, The Spirit of '76," was first
constituted in the Regular Army on 1 July 1916 with horse-drawn
French 75mm pack guns. Initially organized at Fort Ethan Allen,
Vermont on 13 June 1917, it served with distinction in France
with the 3rd Division during World War I in the Champagne-Marne,
Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Champagne 1918
Campaigns. The unit had been consolidated, converted, and
redesignated on 1 November 1917 as Battery A, 76th Field
Artillery. The 76th Field Artillery was assigned on 12 November
1917 to the 3rd Division. For providing ceaseless and violently
accurate fires in support of the "Marne" Division, the 76th
Field Artillery Regiment was presented the Croix de Guerre with
Gold Star by the Tenth French Army. The unit was inactivated on
28 April 1930 at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming. It was
reactivated on 1 December 1938 at Fort Francis E. Warren,
Wyoming On 16 October 1939, the 76th Field Art