Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 October 2013
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
1st ENGINEER BRIGADE
- Constituted 12 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Engineer Amphibian Brigade
- Activated 15 June 1942 at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
- Redesignated 10 May 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Engineer Special Brigade
- Inactivated 18 February 1946 in Korea
- Redesignated 30 September 1986 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Engineer Brigade, transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and organized at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Sicily
- Naples-Foggia
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Ryukyus
DECORATIONS
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY BEACHES
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
WILLIAM A. SOFFT
Brigadier General, USA
Chief of Military History
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