Constituted 12 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 361st Quartermaster Battalion

Activated 15 June 1942 at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 19 February 1944 as the 478th Amphibian Truck Company, Transportation Corps

Inactivated 10 February 1946 on Okinawa

Redesignated 17 May 1947 as the 372d Transportation Amphibious Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves

Activated 2 June 1947 at Beaumont, Texas

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

Inactivated 17 August 1950 at Beaumont, Texas

Redesignated 23 March 1966 as the 372d Transportation Company; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army

Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Riley, Kansas

Inactivated 20 September 1968 at Fort Riley, Kansas

Activated 20 December 1968 in Vietnam
372d Transportation company

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                World War II
                Sicily (with arrowhead)
                Normandy (with arrowhead)
                Northern France
                Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
      Streamer without inscription

                Vietnam
                Counteroffensive, Phase VI
                Tet 69/Counteroffensive
                Summer-Fall 1969
                Winter-Spring 1970
                Sanctuary Counteroffensive
                Counteroffensive, Phase VII
                Consolidation I
                Consolidation II
                Cease-Fire

                Southwest Asia
                Defense of Saudi Arabia
                Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

                War on Terrorism
                Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1972

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY BEACHES

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: