485th Engineer Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2009
485th Engineer Company Lineage
Constituted 22 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 1480th Engineer Maintenance Company
Activated 27 March 1944 at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi
Inactivated 31 May 1946 in the Philippines
Redesignated 9 December 1948 as the 485th Engineer Dump Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
Activated 28 March 1949 at Phoenix, Arizona
Ordered into active military service 19 August 1950 at Phoenix, Arizona
(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 485th Engineer Company
Released from active military service 20 January 1955 and reverted to reserve status with location at Camp Stoneman,
California
Inactivated 1 May 1959 at Camp Stoneman, California
Activated 16 September 2008 at Rockford, Illinois
485th Engineer Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater, Streamer without inscription; Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription
Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952