43rd Field Artillery (United States)

43rd Field Artillery Battalion
Active	1933
Country	United States
Branch	Army
Type	Field artillery
Motto(s)	"Quo Fata Vocant" (Wither the fates call)

The 43rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the Regular Army

Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 43rd Field Artillery

Assigned to the 8th Infantry Division (United States) and activated at Fort Jackson, South Carolina 1 June 1941

(1st Battalion, 43rd Coast Artillery reconstituted and consolidated with the 43rd Field Artillery Battalion 28 June 1950)

Relieved from the 8th Infantry Division and inactivated in Germany 1 August 1957

World war I

World War II

not active

Gules, a 105mm shell or surmounted by a compass rose argent and sable

none

in the predominating scarlet and gold of the field artillery arm the functions of the organization are symbolized by the 105mm shell. The compass represents the far reaching effect of the fire of the organization and represents willingness to carry on to all points of the compass.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry website http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry/ArmyDUISSICOA/ArmyHeraldryUnit.aspx?u=220.