Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 September 2019

1148th Transportation Company

  • Organized and Federally recognized 23 October 1934 in the Georgia National Guard at Thomasville as Company I, 121st Infantry, an element of the 30th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Thomasville
  • (121st Infantry relieved 22 November 1941 from assignment to the 30th Division and assigned to the 8th Division [later redesignated as the 8th Infantry Division])
  • Inactivated 20 October 1945 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • (121st Infantry relieved 5 July 1946 from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division and assigned to the 48th Infantry Division)
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 3 September 1947 at Thomasville as Company F, 121st Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1955 as Company C, 121st Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 48th Armored Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1959 as Company B, 4th Medium Tank Battalion, 108th Armor, an element of the 48th Armored Division
  • Converted and redesignated 1 January 1968 as Company D, 560th Engineer Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 48th Armored Division
  • Converted and redesignated 1 April 1996 as the 1148th Transportation Company
  • Ordered into active Federal service 3 February 2003 at Thomasville; released from active Federal service 11 October 2004 and reverted to state control
  • Location changed 1 September 2007 to Augusta
  • Ordered into active Federal service 7 November 2010 at Augusta; released from active Federal service 26 November 2011 and reverted to state control
  • Location changed 1 September 2013 to Fort Gordon, Georgia
  • HOME STATION: Fort Gordon, Georgia

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HURTGEN FOREST
  • French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered BRITTANY
  • Luxembourg Croix de Guerre, Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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