71st Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( United States ) The 71st Air Defense Artillery was a regiment in the United States Army . Lineage / history . World War I . Constituted 2 May 1918 in the Regular Army as the 71st Artillery , United States Army Coast Artillery Corps . < br > Organized 12 May 1918 in the Coast Defenses of Boston ( MA ) with Headquarters at Fort Strong , Massachusetts . < br > The regiment sailed via Halifax , Nova Scotia to England then crossed the English Channel to Le Havre , France then on to an Organization and Training Center in the vicinity of Angers , France in 1918 when the Armistice with Germany ending World War I was signed . < br > Returned to the continental US and demobilized 6 March 1919 at Camp Devens , Massachusetts ( now Fort Devens ) . World War II . The 71st Artillery , Coast Artillery Corps , reconstituted and consolidated with the 71st Coast Artillery ( Antiaircraft ) Regiment at Fort Monroe , Virginia on July 1 , 1940 , using officers of the 504th Coast Artillery ( Antiaircraft ) Regiment , Organized Reserve , a 65 - man cadre from the 52nd Coast Artillery in Harbor Defense Sandy Hook , and a similar group from 70th Coast Artillery ( Anti Aircraft ) Regiment at Fort Moultrie and Fort Screven ( see Tybee Island , Georgia ) . < br > The 1st Battalion activated on July 31 , 1940 and the 2nd Battalion on Jan . 3 , 1941 at Fort Story , Virginia ( now Joint Expeditionary Base East ) . < br > Regiment moved to anti - aircraft positions in the vicinity of Norfolk , VA , December 8 , 1941 to January 7 , 1942 , when the regiment moved to the Washington , D . C . , area , to establish anti - aircraft defenses . The 3rd Bn was activated June 15 , 1942 . < br > The regiment remained posted at Washington until inactivated September 1 , 1943 . Its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows : Headquarters Battery , 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Group ; 1st Battalion as the 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion ; 3rd Battalion as the 241st Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion . < br > Cold War . Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Group , inactivated 25 March 1946 at Munich , Germany . < br > Redesignated 15 September 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion . < br > Activated 30 September 1949 at Fort Bliss , Texas , with organic batteries of the former 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion . < br > Redesignated 22 July 1953 as the 71st Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion . < br > Inactivated 1 September 1958 in the Washington ( DC ) - Baltimore ( MD ) Defense Area . < br > Reorganized and redesignated 28 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Missile Battalion , 71st Artillery ( organic elements concurrently constituted and activated ) . < br > Moved by train and ship from Ft . Bliss , TX to Taiwan and activated as an operational Nike - Hercules battalion October 26 , 1958 . < br > Battalion inactivated 15 August 1959 in Taiwan . < br > The 2nd Battalion ( HAWK ) , 71st Artillery was activated 1 March 1960 at Fort Bliss , Texas then deployed overseas to Korea in the fall of the same year . < br > Redesignated 1 Sept 1971 as the 2nd Battalion , 71st Air Defense Artillery . < br > Inactivated 20 July 1982 in Korea . Vietnam War . Battery D , 71st Artillery 29 September 1966 to 25 June 1971 " Battery D of the 71st Artillery was a quad mounted M55 . 50 - caliber machinegun battery stationed on its first tour in Vietnam at Long Binh with the 5th Battalion , 2nd Artillery and later II Field Force , Vietnam . On its second tour in Vietnam the battery was attached to XXIV Corps stationed at Da Nang . " 6th Battalion , 71st Artillery ( HAWK Missile ) 29 September 1965 to 22 September 1968 " The 6th Battalion of the 71st Artillery was a mobile HAWK missile battalion located first at Qui Nhon . In 1966 , as part of the 97th Artillery Group , the battalion was relocated to Cam Ranh Bay , where it remained until departing Vietnam . " A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1 / 8 inches ( 2 . 86 cm ) in height overall blazoned as follows : Gules , five high explosive projectiles palewise in chevron surmounted by three chevronels Or . Attached below and to the sides of the insignia a Gold scroll inscribed “ UNDIQUE VENIMUS ” in Black letters . Scarlet and yellow are the colors used for Artillery . The three chevronels from the coat of arms of John Winthrop , the founder of the Boston Colony , alludes to Boston , the area in which the unit was originally constituted and organized in 1918 . The five projectiles are symbolic of the unit ’ s five battle honors awarded for service in World War II . They also commemorate the mission of the unit to attack and destroy enemy aircraft . The motto translates to “ We Come From All Parts " . The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 71st Artillery Regiment on 21 May 1959 . It was redesignated for the 71st Air Defense Artillery Regiment effective 1 September 1971 . Campaign streamers . World War I : Streamer without inscription < br > World War II : Normandy , Northern France , Rhineland , Ardennes - Alsace , Central Europe Decorations . Air Force Outstanding Unit Award , Streamer embroidered KOREA 1978 - 1982 ( 2nd Battalion , 71st Air Defense Artillery )