1/31/1949 The 267th FAB is redesignated as the 971st Field Artillery Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps.
3/7/1955 Fort Sill OK 267th Armored Field Artillery Battalion was activated at Fort Sill OK and replaced the 200 Armored Field Artillery Battalion which was returned to National Guard status. It was armed with 155mm self-propelled Howitzers. The Army announced in September it would rotate with the 597th to Hanau Germany. Star Gazette 9/22/55
5/15/1955 Fort Sill OK The 267th AFAB motor shop and welding shop were destroyed by fire here Saturday and Col Henderson O Webb, post fire marshall estimates the damage at $90,000 to the buildings alone. Webb said a number of vehicles were destroyed. Cause of th blaze is not known. The motor shop was preparing vehicles for the summer ROTC training camp. No one was hurt in the fire. The Daily Oklahoman 5/15/55
8/21/1955 Fort Sill OK Lt Col John Georgelas has been named commanding officer of the 267th AFAB succeeding Lt Col William L Goodard. Col Goodard has been reassigned to the artillery and guided missle school.
12/10/1955 Fort Sill OK The largest contingent of trainees to arrive this year will come to Ft Sill next week. The men will go to the 267th AFAB and will go with it when it leaves for a new assignment in Germany next year. Elaborate preperations to receive 469 trainees are now being readied at the outfit. Lt Col R A Edward Jr, commanding officer said that after advanced individual training all the slots in his battalion will be filled. Each of the trainees will be assigned a battery immediately on arrival so that no time will be lost in processing and orientation from the battalion level. The recruits will undergo 8 weeks of advanced indivdual training before getting a military occupation specialty number. Troops will be given Christmas leave and their actual training will not begin until Jan 9. 27 recruits are from Fort Riley KS, 272 from Camp Chaffee, 121 from Fort Leonard Wood MO, 6 from Fort Carson CO and one from Fort Dix NJ. The Daily Oklahoman 12/11/55
3/27/1956-4/12/1956 The 267th departed Fort Sill to replace the 597th Armored Field Artillery Battalion at Hanau Germany. It traveled to the Brooklyn Army Terminal then sailed from NY City to Bremehaven Germany. Then it traveled overland to its duty station in Babenhausen Germany. This was part of Operation Gyroscope. It had 31 Officers, 3 Warrant Officers and 645 Enlisted Personnel. Charles Knute was promoted to Specialist 3rd Class and is a truck driver in Battery B. Carrol Daily Times 5/26/56
4/13/1956 Babenhausen Germany The 267th was attached to the Seventh Army, V Corps, 36th Field Artillery Group while stationed in Babenhausen.
3/26/1957 Fort Sill OK Fort Sill launched a new system of "packet training" of troops for gyroscope units when 300 men arrive on April 1. The 300 are scheduled to start the training while assigned to the 597th AFAB. While with this unit they will get their second 8 weeks of basic training. They will then be sent to the 267th in Badenhausen. Lawton Constitution 3/26/57
5/25/1957 Grafenwohr Germany Two servicemen from Battery A were killed and another wounded when there was a malfunction or explosion of a howitzer breech block./Keith Land, 23 son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Land of Franklin Township WI was killed when a large artillery gun misfired Saturday. It happened 30 miles from Frankfurt Germany. The La Crosse Tribune 5/31/57
10/2/1957 The 267th was designated by the Seventh Army as a Superior Unit for the training year ending 6/30/1957.
12/5/1957Lt John Larson was recently commissioned in his present rank. He is the commanding officer of the 267th AFAB. Journal and Courier 12/5/57
12/1/1957 The 267th was inactivated in Germany when it was replaced by the 288th Armored Field Artillery Battalion.
12/1/1957-Present The 267th FAB remains inactive.


Jan 31, 1949 to Dec 1, 1957,
Cold War Duty


Documents: Attach to 36FAB, Attached to 7th Army, Superior Unit



