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401st Engineer Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 October 2007

401st Engineer Company Lineage

Constituted 15 October 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 537th Engineer Bridge Train

Organized in January 1922 at New York, New York

Location changed 17 March 1923 to Hamburg, New York

Reorganized and redesignated 5 September 1928 as the 537th Engineer Ponton Company

Location changed 11 October 1928 to Buffalo, New York; on 15 April 1937 to New York, New York

Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 1942 as the 537th Engineer Light Ponton Company

Ordered into active military service at New York, New York, and reorganized 25 June 1943 at Camp Howze, Texas

Inactivated 12 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 401st Engineer Light Ponton Company

Redesignated 26 February 1947 as the 401st Engineer Ponton Bridge Company

Activated 12 March 1947 at Springfield, Massachusetts

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Location changed 30 June 1948 to Boston, Massachusetts

Inactivated 18 October 1949 at Boston, Massachusetts

Redesignated 18 July 1955 as the 401st Engineer Company

Activated 13 October 1955 at Lewiston, Maine

Location changed 13 November 1958 to Auburn, Maine

Inactivated 31 January 1968 at Auburn, Maine

Activated 16 October 1995 at Dexter, Maine

Inactivated 15 April 2000 at Dexter, Maine

Activated 16 September 2007 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

401st Engineer Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

None


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