The soldiers could now go off TDY status and bring their families, cars, and personal effects to south Florida.

Organized 22 July 1917 in the Regular Army at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as the 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps (CAC), from units of the Coast Defenses of Long Island Sound, Eastern New York, Southern New York, Narragansett Bay, and Port Royal Sound.

While in France the unit was attached to the 30th Brigade, CAC, and armed with a variety of French- and British-made railway guns, including French 320 mm weapons.

Battery F served in the Harbor Defenses of Bermuda with four 8-inch M1888 railway guns from 1 April 1941 through 20 February 1942, when redesignated as part of the 27th Coast Artillery Battalion and similarly transferred back to the US.

[2] Battery E ordered to Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound 16 December 1941, but two gun sections were detached to man two 8-inch Mk.

Later transferred to Fort Casey; redesignated as Battery B, 285th CA (Rwy) Battalion on 30 March 1943.

VI railway guns at Fort Hancock, New Jersey after 20 February 1942; transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and inactivated there 18 April 1944.

[2] Regiment broken up 1 May 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: After 1 May 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 52nd Artillery Group, and the 538th, 539th, and 52nd Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 30 June 1971 as the 52nd Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Withdrawn 16 April 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 52nd Field Artillery Redesignated 26 August 1941 as the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 24th Infantry Division Activated 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, a bend potenté Or.

Attached below the shield a Gold scroll inscribed "SEMPER PARATUS" in Red letters.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 538th Field Artillery Battalion on 29 December 1951.