3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery (United States)
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3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment was inactivated at the end of World War Two, it was reactivated at Fort Sill, OK on 1 August 1946 where it supported the Field Artillery School. It was reorganized and designated the 3d Howitzer Battalion, 6th Field Artillery in May 1958.
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The 3rd of 6th Artillery was deployed to the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam war in 1966 equipped with the M107 Self-Propelled Gun. Based at Camp Saint Barbara (later Artillery Hill) outside of Pleiku, the 3d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, part of the 52nd artillery group, participated in 10 campaigns throughout the central highlands until it was redeployed to the United States in 1970 and inactivated on 10 April 1970.
Between 1966 and 1970, the 3d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery participated in some of the most memorable & decisive events of the War in Vietnam.
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