First To Battle DUI (Korea) Please help identify

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This DUI is driving me crazy as I cant find it anywhere , can somebody please help it is marked P-23 on the back

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5th Arty Group (ASMIC Motto LIst)

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Headquarters and Headquarters

detachment

5th United States army artillery

Group

Heraldic items

distinctive Unit insignia

Description:

a gold metal and enamel device consisting of a red arrow-

head at center with point up surmounted by a gold cannon and

flanked by two Korean taeguks in red and blue, all in front of

four gold rays issuant from center and across the bottom a red

scroll bearing the motto “First to Battle” in gold letters.

symbolism:

Scarlet and gold (yellow) are the colors of artillery. The five

points (four gold rays and point of the arrowhead) allude to

the group’s numerical designation.

the gold cannon in the

center signifies the first artillery group organized in the United

States

army. the arrowhead refers to the unit’s decoration for

participation in the invasion of Sicily during World War ii,

and the taeguks denote two awards of the Korean Presidential

Unit Citation for service in that country.

lineage and Honors

lineage RA (inactive)

Constituted 1 September 1942 in the army of the United States as Headquarters

and Headquarters

detachment, 5th

armored

artillery Group. activated 5

September 1942 at Camp young, California. reorganized and redesignated 14

august 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Field

artillery Group.

inactivated 22 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts. activated

1 august 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

allotted 25 October 1951 to the

regular

army. inactivated 28 March 1955 in Korea.

redesignated 30 March 1962 as

Headquarters and Headquarters detachment, 5th United States army artillery

Group.

activated 22 July 1962 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. inactivated 15 October

1988 in Germany.

 

Campaign Participation Credit

World War ii

Tunisia

Sicily (with arrowhead)

Normandy

Northern France

Rhineland

Ardennes-Alsace

Central Europe

Korean War

UN defensive

UN Offensive

CCF intervention

Second Korean Winter

Korea, Summer–Fall 1952

third Korean Winter

Korea, Summer 1953

decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (army), Streamer embroidered KOrea

1952–1953 (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Field artillery Group,

cited; DA GO 57, 1953)

Republic of Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered

Inchon to Hungnam (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Field

artillery Group,

cited; DA GO 8, 1952)

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered Korea

1952 (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Field

artillery Group, cited;

DA GO 31, 1953, as amended by DA GO 60, 1953

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Does this DI have Made in USA on it?

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Does this DI have Made in USA on it?

No just P-23

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P-23 is the post '64 manufacturing mark for the company E.P. Industries, Inc. in Cranston Rhode Island.

 

Brent

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P-23 is the post '64 manufacturing mark for the company E.P. Industries, Inc. in Cranston Rhode Island.

 

Brent

Yes indeed. And pre 1974, after that MADE in USA will be on DIs.

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Can't find authorization date on this units DI lasvegas, it will be though around the mid 60s, like 1965 towards the late 60s. This unit, the 5th Artillery Group like all Groups is a Non Color Bearing Unit, or NCBU, they have a Flag but not Colors, therefore they are not entitled to a Distinguishing Unit Insignia.

 

It was the at this time starting around 1965, that the Army granted Distinguishing Unit Insignia be adopted for those units that were Non Color Bearing, these included High Command Organizations, in example, Continental Army Command, U.S. Army Europe etc, Followed by Armies IE 1st Army, 2nd Army, 3rd Army etc, followed by Corps IE I Corps, III Corps etc, then came the Combat Divisions themselves, apart from most National Guard Divisions, Headquarters of the majority of divisions had no DIs, because unlike the Battalions within them, are not Color Bearing. Then come Separate Combat Brigades of the Regular Army and Reserve Components, they too Begin to receive DIs of their own, Separate Combat Support/Support Brigades too.