The 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment was first organized on 01 June 1917 as the 3rd Company, Fort Washington, Maryland.

The unit was reactivated 08 January 1941 and joined the rest of the 52nd Coast Artillery Regiment at Fort Hancock, New Jersey.

The unit remained at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground until it was inactivated on 18 April 1944 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi and finally completely disbanded on 14 June 1944.

The unit was reconstituted on 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and concurrently consolidated with Battery B, 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division in Japan.

The battalion supported the 24th Infantry Division during World War II starting at Pearl Harbor and the defense of northern Oahu and then amphibious campaigns in New Guinea, Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon, and Mindanao.

The 52d Field Artillery Battalion regrouped at Daejon where they positioned to defend the Kum River Line.

After reorganizing and successfully defending the Naktong Bulge along the Pusan Perimeter, the battalion supported the 24th Infantry Division’s counteroffensive all the way to the Yalu River in North Korea before being pushed back by Chinese Communist forces on or about 03 November 1950.

The battalion remained on the Demilitarized Zone until they returned to Japan in November 1954 and were finally inactivated on 05 June 1958.

On or about 13 August 1962 the battalion was upordered for three days when the Berlin Wall was built, and Battery A was deployed to the border with East Germany.

The battalion would immediately deploy to Saudi Arabia the next day and on 25 June 1996 Soldiers from the unit tended to the wounded after a terrorist attack at the Khobar Towers.

With the signing of the Base Realignment and Closure Act, the unit was relocated to Fort Sill, Oklahoma on 28 June 2006.

It was decided that this would be a permanent change of station and the unit would fall under 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade.