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Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 December 2011

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59th CHEMICAL COMPANY

 

            Constituted 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 59th Chemical Maintenance Company

            Activated 15 August 1943 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky

            Allotted 18 January 1949 to the Regular Army

            Reorganized and redesignated 11 May 1953 as the 59th Chemical Company

            Inactivated 1 September 1963 in Germany

            Activated 1 July 1989 at Fort Drum, New York

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II
Northern France
Rhineland

Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Cease-Fire

War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

            Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003

 

                                                                               

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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