the war. As part of the Korean War mobilization, HHB, 142nd FA Group was activated on 3 September 1950 and deployed to Germany as part of V Corps Artillery. Stationed at Wertheim, Germany, the group controlled four battalions of artillery. The group was inactivated and returned to Arkansas state control on 17 December 1954. Lineage and Honors Lineage Organized 1905-1910 in the Arkansas State Guard at Fayetteville as Company B, 2d Regiment of Infantry (Arkansas State Guard redesignated 31 March 1907 as the Arkansas National Guard) Mustered into Federal service 6–9 July 1917 at Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas; mustered out of Federal service 9 March 1917 at Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas Mustered into Federal service 1 April 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas, as an element of the 39th Division Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917 Consolidated 1 November 1917 with Company M, 2d Regiment of Infantry (organized in 1897 at Harrison), converted, and redesignated as Battery B, 142d Field Artillery, an element of the 39th Division Demobilized 26 June 1919 at Camp Pike, Arkansas Former Company B, 2d Regiment of Infantry, reorganized and Federally recognized 4 December 1923 in the Arkansas National Guard at Fayetteville as Battery A, 206th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) Redesignated 22 April 1924 as Battery A, 206th Coast Artillery Converted and redesignated 3 September 1931 as Battery A, 142d Field Artillery Inducted into Federal service 6 January 1941 at Fayetteville Reorganized and redesignated 25 February 1943 as Battery A, 936th Field Artillery Battalion Inactivated 16 October 1945 in Italy Consolidated with Battery B, 936th Field Artillery Battalion (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit reorganized and Federally recognized 24 October 1946 at Fayetteville as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 142d Field Artillery Group Ordered into active Federal service 3 September 1950 at Fayetteville (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 142d Field Artillery Group [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 10 September 1952 at Fayetteville.) Released 17 December 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 142d Field Artillery Group (NGUS) Ordered into active Federal service 24 September 1957 at Fayetteville Released 23 October 1957 from active Federal service and reverted to state control Redesignated 1 June 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 142d Artillery Group Redesignated 1 May 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 142d Field Artillery Group Redesignated 1 May 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,