Lineage and Honors Information as of 23�Mar�2010�
73d TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Battalion, 29th Quartermaster Regiment
Activated 4 March 1942 at Fort Ord, California
Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1943 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 29th Quartermaster Truck Regiment
Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 3443d Quartermaster Truck Company
Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3443d Transportation Corps Truck Company
Redesignated 30 June 1947 as the 73d Transportation Truck Company
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 73d Transportation Company
Inactivated 25 September 1958 in Korea
Activated 1 September 1959 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
East Indies
Papua
New Guinea
Luzon
Korean War
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953
Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Cease-Fire
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History