Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
472d CHEMICAL BATTALION
- Constituted 5 January 1945 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 28th Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion
- Activated 22 January 1945 at Camp Sibert, Alabama
- Inactivated 15 April 1946 on Okinawa
- Redesignated 11 February 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 472d Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 4 March 1949 at Chicago, Illinois
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Redesignated 25 June 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 472d Chemical Battalion
- Detachment ordered into active military service 9 June 2009 at Chicago, Illinois; released from active military service 13 July 2010 and reverted to reserve status
Campaign Participation Credit
Decorations
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History
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