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450th Engineer Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 October 2007

450th Engineer Company Lineage

Constituted 4 February 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 450th Engineer Company and activated at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 450th Engineer Depot Company

Inactivated 4 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts

Redesignated 20 January 1947 as the 450th Engineer Dump Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves

Activated 30 January 1947 at Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

Inactivated 16 November 1950 at Santa Fe, New Mexico

Redesignated 27 March 1959 as the 450th Engineer Company

Activated 1 April 1959 at Albuquerque, New Mexico

Location changed 15 December 1959 to Longview, Texas

Inactivated 27 March 1963 at Longview, Texas

Activated 16 June 2007 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky

450th Engineer Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Algeria-French Morocco; Tunisia; Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER


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