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307th Signal Battalion

Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 March 2009

307th Signal Battalion Lineage

Constituted 27 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 313th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion

Activated 15 June 1942 in the Canal Zone

Reorganized and redesignated 27 January 1944 as the 313th Antiaircraft Balloon Battalion, Low Altitude

Converted and redesignated 10 April 1944 as the 48th Signal Light Construction Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 26 June 1944 as the 48th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion

Inactivated 29 November 1945 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey

Redesignated 26 February 1947 as the 307th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserves

Activated 11 March 1947 with Headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio (organic elements activated 24 April 1947)

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

Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1950 as the 307th Signal Construction Battalion

Location of Headquarters changed 5 February 1951 to Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 28 October 1953 as the 307th Signal Battalion

Location of Headquarters changed 1 July 1957 to Cincinnati, Ohio

(Organic elements disbanded 24 April 1959)

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 307th Signal Battalion, inactivated 15 January 1963 at Cincinnati, Ohio

Withdrawn 1 March 1970 from the Army Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated in Vietnam

Inactivated 30 April 1971 in Vietnam

Redesignated 31 July 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 307th Signal Battalion, and activated in Korea (organic elements concurrently reconstituted in the Regular Army and activated)

Battalion inactivated 1 October 1977 in Korea

(Company A activated 16 May 1987 in Korea)

Activated (less Company A) 16 March 1988 in Korea

307th Signal Battalion Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: American Theater, Streamer without inscription; Rhineland

Vietnam: Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER


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