HQ-Battery 319th Field Artillery Camp Claiborne

Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

May 1942

The 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division, (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division) was ordered into active military service March 25, 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.

Pictured below is a group photo of HQ-Battery, 319th Field Artillery, taken May 1942. Captain Ray A. Nichols, Commanding.

They would later move to Fort Bragg, North Carolina as a direct support B-Battery of the 82nd Airborne Division Artillery.