623rd Field Artillery Battalion

Reorganized from the 106th A.A. Automatic Weapons Battalion and redesignated as the 623rd F.A. Battalion, this Kentucky National Guard unit was federally recognized on January 29, 1947, with headquarters at Glasgow, re-entered federal service there on January 23, 1951, and became the only unit of the Kentucky National Guard to actually serve in Korea during the Korean War. Arriving in December 1951, it took part in the Second Korean Winter, Korea Summer-Fall 1952, Third Korean Winter, and Korea Summer 1953 campaigns, and it was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and the Korean Presidential Unit Citation.

Glasgow, Kentucky · United States