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949th Transportation Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 January 2003

949th Transportation Company Lineage

Constituted 31 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 489th Quartermaster Battalion

Activated 15 December 1942 as Company B, 489th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania

Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1943 as the 613th Port Company

Inactivated 15 February 1946 in Japan

Redesignated 12 May 1947 as the 949th Transportation Port Company; concurrently allotted to the Organized Reserves

Activated 27 May 1947 at Baltimore, Maryland

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

Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Baltimore, Maryland

Redesignated 29 December 1955 as the 949th Transportation Company

Activated 22 February 1956 at Baltimore, Maryland

949th Transportation Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II - AP: New Guinea; Luzon (with arrowhead)

Decorations

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945


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