Originally approved for the 35th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 April 1933, the 35th Field Artillery Distinctive Unit Insignia has in the past been redesignated for the 517th Field Artillery Battalion (1949) and the 35th Artillery Regiment (1959); it was redesignated again for the 35th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1971. Its simple design consists of a scarlet shield with a gold band, with scarlet denoting the Artillery branch and the gold band indicative of honorable service. Unlike most unit crests, it does not include the unit motto of Toujours En Avant, French for “Always Forward.”
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The unit was originally constituted as the 35th Field Artillery and assigned to the 12th Division on 5 July 1918 and organized 9 August 1918; it saw no action in World War I. Following demobilization and reconstitution under its original designation, the Regiment was activated 10 February 1941 and was subsequently broken up in 1943, with its HHB becoming HHB, 35th Field Artillery Group and its 1st and 2nd Battalions becoming the 976th (subsequently the 517th) and 977th (later the 519th) Field Artillery Battalions; the latter two would be inactivated following the war (April 1955 and June 1958 respectively), while the 35th Field Artillery Group would be inactivated in 1971 after being redesignated as HHB, 35th Artillery Group for thirteen years.
During World War II, units in the Regiment’s lineage were awarded a total of seven World War II campaign streamers, one of which (Southern France) is graced with an Arrowhead device denoting the Regiment’s planned participation in an assault landing. In the Vietnam War, Regimental unit received battle honor for participation in doze of that war’s campaigns.
The Regiment was reformed through the consolidation of the 35th Artillery Group, 517th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, and the 519th Field Artillery to form the 35th Artillery on 15 January 1971. It would be reorganized under the U.S. Army Regimental System in 1986 as the 35th Field Artillery Regiment, but would not see combat after that time as the Battalions were inactivated, beginning with the 1st and 2nd Battalion’s inactivations in 1988 and the 3rd Battalion’s in 1992; the 4th had been inactivated since 1968 and the 5th since 1963, though the inactive 5th had been redesignated as the 5th Howitzer Battalion in September 1971 and then back to simply 5th Battalion on 15 September 2003.