The battalion was last active as a HAWK unit subordinate to the 10th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Wildflecken, Germany until 1992.

The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 22 July 1917 as Battery C, 7th Provisional Regiment (Coast Artillery Corps) and deployed to France for World War I.

The unit was then redesignated on 05 February 1918 as Battery C, 52nd Artillery Regiment (Coast Artillery Corps) and fought in the battles of Champagne (09 April - 14 July), Aisne-Marne (15-17 July), Champagne (18-25 September), and Meuse-Argonne (26 September - 11 November).

During World War II, the unit was moved to Fort Miles, Delaware on 14 March 1942.

As a HAWK battalion in northern West Germany, the unit was subordinate to the 10th Air Defense Artillery Brigade.