Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 October 2014
448th ENGINEER BATTALION
- Constituted 15 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2d Battalion, 924th Engineer Regiment, Aviation
- Activated 1 October 1942 at Richmond Army Air Base, Richmond, Virginia
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1943 as the 1906th Engineer Aviation Battalion
- Inactivated 28 February 1946 in the Philippines
- Redesignated 26 March 1948 as the 448th Engineer Construction Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 1 May 1948 at San Juan, Puerto Rico
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 September 1953 as the 448th Engineer Battalion
- (Location of Headquarters changed 20 January 1966 to Bayamon, Puerto Rico; on 17 March 1974 to Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico; on 6 June 1977 to Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico)
- Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Leyte
- Ryukyus
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Chief of Military History