539th Transportation Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 December 2008
539th Transportation Company Lineage
Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Battalion, 48th Quartermaster Regiment
Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1942 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 48th Quartermaster Truck Regiment
Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 3523d Quartermaster Truck Company
Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3523d Transportation Corps Truck Company
Redesignated 30 June 1947 as the 539th Transportation Truck Company
Reorganized and redesignated 26 April 1954 as the 539th Transportation Company
Inactivated 1 June 1955 in Korea
Activated 21 August 1962 at New Cumberland General Depot, Pennsylvania
Inactivated 30 June 1971 in Vietnam
Activated 16 October 2007 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
539th Transportation Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: East Indies; Papua; New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago
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
Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971