Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 May 2016
304th Transportation Company
- Constituted 1 April 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company C, 519th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1943 as the 304th Port Company and activated at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
- Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Allotted 27 February 1947 to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 11 March 1947 at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
- Location changed 14 May 1947 to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- Redesignated 13 October 1947 as the 304th Transportation Port Company
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1953 as the 304th Transportation Company
- Inactivated 18 December 1953 at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- Activated 16 October 1995 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Location changed 17 September 2001 to Springfield, Massachusetts
- Ordered into active military service 1 December 2009 at Springfield, Massachusetts
- Permanent location changed 1 January 2010 to Chicopee, Massachusetts
- Released from active military service 4 January 2011 and reverted to reserve status
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Antwerp
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History