WWII M1944 Guidon; 3rd BTRY, 101st AntiAircraft Artillery BN, GEORGIA NTL GUARD

Description

Post WWI M1944 Guidon; 3rd Battery, 101st Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Battalion
, Georgia
Army National Guard
For your consideration is this beautiful M1944 Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot guidon dated 4 February 1959.
This Guidon was manufactured from Headquarters, 3rd Battery, 101st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, Georgia Army National Guard.
This Guidon was manufactured 5 months before the 101st AAA BN was consolidated and redesignated with the 214th Field Artillery.
Southern guidons are extremely hard to locate. This unit is a direct linage from the 108th Cavalry Regiment.
Condition
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Museum Quality
101st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
LINAGE
Organized from existing volunteer companies and mustered into Confederate service September-October 1861 as the 1st and 2nd Battalion Georgia Cavalry’s. Consolidated 20 January 1863 to form the 5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment. Surrendered 26 April 1865 near Greensboro, North Carolina with the Army of Tennessee.
Reorganized 11 June 1875 as the Georgia Volunteers as the 1st Squadron, Cavalry. Expanded, Reorganized, & Redesignated 11 November 1889 as the 1st Regiment, Georgia Cavalry. Redesignated 26 December 1890 as the 5th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry. Redesignated 12 January 1894 as the 1st Regiment, Cavalry. Consolidated 10 October 1899 with the 1st Battalion, Cavalry (Organized 15 January 1890) and consolidated unit designation as 1st Regiment, Cavalry. (Georgia Volunteers redesignated 21 December 1899 as the Georgia State Troops; Redesignated 1 November 1905 as the Georgia National Guard.) Redesignated 2 December 1907 as the 1st & 2nd Squadron of Cavalry. 1st Squadron (Less Troop B) disbanded 19 September 1910. Troop B Concurrently transferred to the 2nd Squadron. 2nd Squadron mustered into federal service 16 July 1916. Drafted into federal service 5 August 1917. Squadron broken up 18 September-20 October 1917 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as elements of the 106th Field Signal Battalion.
106th Train Headquarters and Military Police and Headquarters Troop, 31st Division.
106th Field Signal Battalion demobilized 10 May 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. 106th Train Headquarters and Military Police demobilized 14 January 1919 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Headquarters Troop, 31st Division demobilized October 1918 at Camp Mills, New York.
Former 2nd Squadron reorganized and Federally recognized 6 March 1922 in the Georgia National Guard as the 1st Squadron, 108th Cavalry with Headquarters at Hinesville, Georgia. Headquarters, 108th Cavalry organized and federally recognized 10 November 1923 at Hinesville (2nd Squadron allotted to the Louisiana National Guard, separate linage.)
Headquarters and 1st Squadron 108th Cavalry converted and redesignated 12 October 1940 as the 101st Separate Battalion, Coast Artillery. Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at home station as the 101st Separate Coast Artillery Battalion.Reorganized and Redesignated 10 May 1943 as the 101st Coast Artillery Battalion. Reorganized and Redesignated 15 June 1944 as the 101st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. Reorganized and Redesignated 15 September 1944 as the 101st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, Air Transportable. Inactive 28 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman California. Redesignated 11 October 1946 101st Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 June 1947 with Headquarters at Statesboro. Ordered into Active Federal service 14 August 1950 at home station. Released 13 April 1952 from active federal service and reverted to state control. Redesignated 1 October 1953 as 101st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.
Consolidated 1 July 1959 with Headquarters 214th Antiaircraft Artillery Group and the 250th & 950th Antiaircraft Battalions to form the 214th Artillery a parent Regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System to consist of the 1st, 2nd, & 4th Gun Battalions. The 3rd Automatic Weapons Battalion and the 5th Detachment reorganized 1 May 1962 to consist of the 1st Howitzer Battalion and the 3rd Automatic Weapons Battalion and the 5th Detachment reorganized 16 April 1963 to consist of the 1st Battalion and elements of the 48th Armored Division. Reorganized 1 January 1968 to consist of the 1st & 2nd Battalion. Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 214th Field Artillery. Withdrawn 1 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.