Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 June 2012
379th ENGINEER COMPANY
- Organized 1 March 1941 while in Federal service at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, as the Service Battery, 2d Battalion, 101st Field Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1942 as the Service and Ammunition Battery, 212th Field Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as the Service Battery, 212th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 27 February 1947 in the Massachusetts National Guard at Brockton as the Service Battery, 212th Field Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1955 as Battery D, 126th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Battery D, 2d Automatic Weapons Battalion, 211th Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1962 as Battery C, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 211th Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Battery C, 2d Battalion, 101st Artillery
- Location changed 1 October 1964 to Whitman
- Reorganized and redesignated 19 December 1967 as Battery A, 3d Battalion, 101st Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as Battery A, 3d Battalion, 101st Field Artillery
- Consolidated 1 November 1974 with Battery A, 1st Battalion, 241st Air Defense Artillery (organized and Federally recognized 17 February 1950 at Winthrop as Battery D, 772d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion) and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 1st Battalion, 241st Field Artillery
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 December 1975 as Detachment 1, 181st Engineer Company
- Consolidated 1 February 1978 with the 181st Engineer Company (organized and Federally recognized 1 December 1975 at Natick) and consolidated unit designated as the 181st Engineer Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 6 December 1990 at Whitman; released from active Federal service 12 July 1991 and reverted to state control
- Location changed 1 October 1994 to Bourne
- Redesignated 1 September 1996 as the 379th Engineer Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 24 January 2003 at Bourne; released from active Federal service 23 January 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 18 February 2010 at Bourne; released from active Federal service 24 March 2011 and reverted to state control
- HOME STATION: Bourne
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered LAN FROICOURT
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History