4th Coast Artillery Regiment
The regiment was reconstituted on the 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment. As a result of inter-war reductions in military appropriations, the following reductions and increases in the force levels affected this regiment:
- Activated (less Batteries B, E, and F) 18 August 1924 in the Canal Zone.
- (Battery C inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
- Batteries B, C, and F activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
- Battery E activated 1 February 1938 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
- Battery O activated 15 March 1940 in the Canal Zone;
- Batteries M and N activated 14 October 1940 in the Canal Zone;
- Battery L activated 27 January 1941 in the Canal Zone)
The Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) was disbanded 3 October 1944 in the Canal Zone. Afterwards, the regiment underwent more changes with its Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Regiment, reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Group. The remainder of the regimental assets were used to organize the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion.
- Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) reconstituted 12 October 1944 in the Regular Army, concurrently consolidated with the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (constituted 3 October 1944 in the Army of the United States) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion;
- Activated 1 November 1944 in the Canal Zone
- Disbanded (less Batteries A and D) 1 February 1946 in the Canal Zone (Batteries A and D concurrently redesignated as Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa;
- inactivated 15 January 1947 and 15 May 1950, respectively, in the Canal Zone) 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (less Batteries A and D) :reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently, battalion and Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, redesignated as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery)
- Remainder of the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment reorganized 28 June 1951 as follows:
- 1st Battalion consolidated with the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see below) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Redesignated 31 July 1950 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 16 June 1957 in England
- 2d Battalion redesignated as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Activated 8 May 1952 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Redesignated 1 May 1953 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Phantom Lake, Washington
- 3d Battalion redesignated as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 1 April 1951 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
- Redesignated 3 August 1953 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 22 March 1955 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion
- Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Niagara Falls, New York
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