The battalion landed at Normandy in early July 1944 and saw continuous combat as corps artillery throughout the summer.

The two batteries suffered heavy casualties, and eleven men were massacred near the Belgian hamlet of Wereth.

[1] The 333rd Field Artillery Regiment was originally constituted in the National Army on 5 August 1917 and assigned to the 86th Division.

Pursuant to the National Defense Act of 1920 it was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 13 September 1929, assigned to the 86th Division, and allotted to the Sixth Corps Area.

It was initiated (activated) in December 1930 with the entire regiment at Chicago, and was inactivated on 2 October 1937 by relief of personnel.

[8] A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, three pallets Or, each charged with a like number of projectiles, palewise of the first, on a chief of the last, a fleur-de-lis of the first.

The numerical designation is indicated by the three shells on each of three vertical pales; the service in France in World War I being symbolized by the fleur-de-lis.

On a wreath Or and Gules, a demi-lion rampant Sable armed and langued Azure bearing on the shoulder an escutcheon parti per pale of the second and fourth within a border Argent and grasping a sword-breaker with five barbs Gold.

The numerical designation is indicated by the three shells on each of three vertical pales; the service in France in World War I being symbolized by the fleur-de-lis.

The white border around the shield represents the encirclement of that city by the enemy and also refers to the snow-covered terrain of the "Battle of the Bulge."