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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
812th Transportation Battalion

Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 January 2008

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
812th Transportation Battalion

Constituted 29 September 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 286th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile

Activated 29 October 1944 in Italy

Inactivated 12 November 1945 in Germany

Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 286th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion

Redesignated 12 August 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 812th Transportation Truck Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps

Activated 14 September 1948 at Charlotte, North Carolina

Redesignated 27 July 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 812th Transportation Truck Battalion

(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Redesignated 5 April 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 812th Transportation Battalion

Redesignated 19 January 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 812th Transportation Battalion

Ordered into active military service 11 December 2003 at Charlotte, North Carolina; released from active military service 7 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
812th Transportation Battalion

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None


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