455th Engineer Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2009
455th Engineer Company Lineage
Constituted 19 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 608th Engineer Light Equipment
Company
Activated 25 January 1943 at Camp Swift, Texas
Inactivated 27 June 1946 in Germany
Redesignated 18 March 1947 as the 455th Engineer Light Equipment Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
Activated 28 April 1947 at Kansas City, Kansas
Location changed 29 January 1948 to Wichita, Kansas
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Inactivated 31 December 1948 at Wichita, Kansas
Redesignated 10 March 1949 as the 455th Engineer Maintenance Company
Activated 18 April 1949 at Los Angeles, California
Redesignated 1 December 1950 as the 455th Engineer Aviation Maintenance Company; concurrently location changed to Klamath
Falls, Oregon
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1952 as the 455th Engineer Aviation Field Maintenance Company; concurrently location
changed to Olympia, Washington
Reorganized and redesignated 20 May 1953 as the 455th Engineer Aviation Company
Redesignated 1 February 1957 as the 455th Engineer Company
Inactivated 29 February 1968 at Olympia, Washington
Activated 16 September 2008 at Hayden Lake, Idaho
455th Engineer Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
None