476th Engineer Detachment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2008
476th Engineer Detachment Lineage
Constituted 13 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2090th Engineer Aviation Fire Fighting
Platoon
Activated 20 January 1944 at Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Florida
Inactivated 20 June 1946 in Italy
Redesignated 21 June 1948 as the 476th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
Activated 15 July 1948 at McClellan Field, Sacramento, California
Location changed 23 February 1951 to Merced, California
(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1953 as the 476th Engineer Detachment
Location changed 1 March 1956 to San Francisco, California; on 1 October 1957 to Santa Cruz, California
Inactivated 1 July 1959 at Santa Cruz, California
Activated 16 September 2008 at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania
476th Engineer Detachment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Rome-Arno
Decorations
None