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