49th Field Artillery Battalion | |
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Active | 1933 |
Country | United States |
Branch | Army |
Type | Field artillery |
Motto(s) | Iterum iterumque (Again and again) |
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The 49th Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the U.S. Army.
Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 49th Field Artillery.
Inactivated 20 July 1947 at Seoul, Korea.
Relieved from the 7th Infantry Division and inactivated in Korea 1 July 1957
Consolidated with 44th artillery
Per Chevron enhanced gules and argent, on the last a bear's head erased and incensed proper.
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The scarlet is the Field Artillery, The silver of the shield in conjunction with the scarlet is indicative of the preparedness of the battalion night and day. The firing functions are allegorically illustrated by the incensed bear's head, being representative of the state of activation, California, taken from the crest of that state.
World War I
World War II
Korean War
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.