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Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 October 2011

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
453d CHEMICAL BATTALION

 

            Constituted 30 May 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 24th Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion

            Activated 1 June 1944 in England

            Inactivated 12 November 1945 in France

            Redesignated 16 September 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 453d Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps

            Activated 30 September 1948 at Baltimore, Maryland

            Ordered into active military service 19 August 1950 at Baltimore, Maryland

            (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

            Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 453d Chemical Battalion

            Released from active military service 27 September 1954 and reverted to reserve status

            Inactivated 10 October 1955 at Baltimore, Maryland

            Activated 23 November 1955 at Washington, D.C.

            Inactivated 1 June 1959 at Washington, D.C.

            Activated 17 September 1988 at Chicago, Illinois

            Inactivated 15 October 1993 at Chicago, Illinois

            Activated 16 September 2011 at Los Alamitos, California

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                 World War II
                                                 Northern France
                                                 Rhineland
                                                 Central Europe
                                                           
                                                 Korean War
                                                 Third Korean Winter
                                                 Korea, Summer 1953

 

DECORATIONS

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1954

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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