Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 March 2010
478th PERSONNEL COMPANY
Constituted 21 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 478th Replacement Company
Activated 2 March 1944 in Northern Ireland
Inactivated 28 June 1946 in Germany
Allotted 18 March 1947 to the Organized Reserves
Activated 11 April 1947 at East Moline, Illinois
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Inactivated 15 November 1950 at East Moline, Illinois
Redesignated 24 November 1967 as the 478th Personnel Service Company
Activated 31 January 1968 at Chicago, Illinois
Ordered into active military service 25 January 1991 at Chicago, Illinois; released from active military service 1 June 1991 and reverted to reserve status
Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 1995 as the 478th Personnel Services Battalion
Ordered into active military service 10 February 2003 at Salt Lake City, Utah; released from active military service 7 August 2004 and reverted to reserve status
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2008 as the 478th Personnel Company
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History