Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2018

333d Engineer Detachment

  • Constituted 21 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2854th Engineer Composite Unit
  • Activated 30 September 1944 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1944 as the 2854th Engineer Service Detachment
  • Redesignated 10 April 1945 as the 2854th Engineer Gas Generating Detachment
  • Inactivated 31 May 1946 at Luzon, Philippines
  • Redesignated 14 April 1948 as the 333d Engineer Utilities Detachment and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 27 April 1948 at Augusta, Georgia
  • Inactivated 10 March 1949 at Augusta, Georgia
  • Activated 16 June 1949 at Augusta, Georgia
  • Ordered into active military service 11 September 1950 at Augusta, Georgia; released from active military service 8 July 1952 and reverted to reserve status
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Inactivated 1 November 1952 at Augusta, Georgia
  • Redesignated 22 March 1955 as the 333d Engineer Detachment
  • Activated 31 March 1955 at Lakeland, Florida
  • Inactivated 25 June 1959 at Lakeland, Florida
  • Activated 16 September 2016 at Santa Fe, New Mexico

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
  • Streamer without inscription

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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