462d Transportation Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 June 2008
462d Transportation Battalion Lineage
Constituted 15 March 1945 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps
Activated 10 April 1945 on Oahu, Hawaii
Inactivated 6 January 1946 on Sand Island, Hawaii
Redesignated 7 July 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 462d Transportation Port Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserves
Activated 15 July 1947 at Camden, New Jersey
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 24 February 1950 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 462d Transportation Port
Battalion
Inactivated 12 July 1950 at Camden, New Jersey
Redesignated 30 August 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 462d Transportation Battalion
Activated 23 September 1955 at Trenton, New Jersey
Location changed 27 October 2003 to Fort Dix, New Jersey; on 1 April 2006 to Trenton, New Jersey
462d Transportation Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription
Decorations
None