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The 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army first organized in 1917 as a railway gun unit. It continued in that role unit 1943, when the regiment was broken in separate railway gun battalions, and in the following year the units were reorganized and redesignated as field artillery. On October 25, 1962, in response to the buildup of Russian missiles in Cuba, the 2nd Missile Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery (Nike Hercules) was deployed from the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bliss, Texas, to south Florida under the command of the 13th Air Defense Artillery Group.〔Charles D. Carter, (The 2nd Missile Battalion of the 52nd Air Defense Artillery 1962 - 1983 )〕 The south Florida units arrived with conventional high explosive warheads. In August 1963, the Army assigned the troops under the control of the 13th Artillery Group to the 53rd Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Region of Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM). The soldiers could now go off TDY status and bring their families, cars, and personal effects to south Florida. They could also move into more permanent living facilities and get access to amenities available at permanent installations. ==Lineage== Organized 22 July 1917 in the Regular Army at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as the 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps Redesignated 5 February 1918 as the 52nd Artillery (U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps) (3d Battalion inactivated 16 May 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia; activated 18 August 1921 at Fort Eustis, Virginia; 1st Battalion inactivated 1 August 1922 at Fort Eustis, Virginia) Redesignated 1 July 1924 as the 52nd Coast Artillery (Battery D inactivated 1 November 1938 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Battery F inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Batteries D and F activated 8 January 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey; 1st Battalion activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) Regiment broken up 1 May 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: :Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded at Fort Hancock, New Jersey :1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions as the 286th, 287th, and 288th Coast Artillery Battalions, respectively (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 288th Coast Artillery Battalion, concurrently inactivated at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) After 1 May 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows: :Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52nd Coast Artillery, reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52nd Field Artillery Group :Activated 18 January 1952 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma :Redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52nd Artillery Group :Inactivated 30 June 1971 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma :286th Coast Artillery Battalion converted and redesignated 30 August 1944 as the 538th Field Artillery Battalion :Inactivated 14 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts :Activated 31 December 1946 in the Philippine Islands :Inactivated 30 May 1947 in the Philippine Islands :Activated 22 March 1951 at Camp Carson, Colorado :Inactivated 1 June 1958 in Germany :287th Coast Artillery Battalion converted and redesignated 30 August 1944 as the 539th Field Artillery Battalion :Inactivated 28 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts :Activated 31 December 1946 in the Philippine Islands :Inactivated 30 May 1947 in the Philippine Islands :Activated 18 March 1955 in Japan| :Inactivated 25 March 1956 in Japan :286th Coast Artillery Battalion inactivated 18 April 1944 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi :Disbanded 14 June 1944 :Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division :Inactivated 5 June 1958 and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52nd Artillery Group, and the 538th, 539th, and 52nd Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 30 June 1971 as the 52nd Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Withdrawn 16 April 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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