81st Field Artillery Unit Crest (Libertas Justitia Humanitas)

81st Field Artillery Unit Crest (Libertas Justitia Humanitas)

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Like many Artillery units formed just before the U.S.entry in the World War I, the 81st Field Artillery Regiment was originally constituted as a Cavalry unit, the 23rd Cavalry, in July 1916. It was organized 21 June 1917 at Fort Ogelthorpe, Georgia with personnel transferred from the 11th Cavalry; it would be designated as the 81st Field Artillery just five months later on 3 November 1917. LIBERTAS JUSTITIA HUMANITAS, the unit motto, translates as “Liberty, Justice, Humanity.”

Assigned to the 8th Division in 1917, the 81st Field Artillery was awarded a World War I Victory streamer (minus campaign or battle inscription) for its contributions to the victory achieved by the American Expeditionary Force. It was inactivated in February 1922; it would not see a unit reactivated until 1940, when the 1st Battalion was activated at Fort Lewis, Washington on 1 July 1940. In December 1940, the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 81st Field Artillery Battalion, and under this designation it earned three campaign streamers from the European Theater during World War II and another uninscribed streamer from the Asiatic-Pacific Theater.

The battalion would undergo numerous activations and reactivations following World War II, with a brief stint (1954 to 1957) as the 81st Airborne Field Artillery Battalion. It became a parent regiment in July 1959 when it was reorganized and redesignated as the 81st Artillery; it was redesignated as the 81st Field Artillery in September 1971.

None of the Regiment’s battalions would see combat again before their inactivations, with several deployed to Germany and the most recent change in the Regiment’s structure coming in 2003 with the redesignation of its 4th Howitzer Battalion as simply the 4th Battalion. As of 2019, the Regiment has no active battalions.

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