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Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 December 2016

739th Engineer Company

  • Constituted 1 April 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 503d Engineer Light Ponton Company
  • Activated 18 April 1942 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Inactivated 13 December 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
  • Redesignated 27 December 1946 as the 503d Engineer Utilities Company
  • Activated 20 January 1947 in Germany
  • Inactivated 1 September 1947 in Germany
  • Redesignated 19 April 1948 as the 739th Engineer Dump Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 15 May 1948 at San Francisco, California
  • Inactivated 31 August 1950 at San Francisco, California
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 16 September 1980 as the 739th Engineer Company
  • Activated 16 March 1985 at East St. Louis, Illinois
  • Location changed 1 November 1997 to Granite City, Illinois
  • Ordered into active military service 21 January 2003 at Granite City, Illinois; released from active military service 6 June 2003 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 10 October 2009 at Granite City, Illinois; released from active military service 13 November 2010 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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