Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 April 2015
52d Engineer Battalion
(WE SERVE, TOGETHER)
- Constituted 15 August 1917 in the National Army as the 39th Engineers
- Organized 18 February 1918 at Camp Upton, New York
- Converted and redesignated 7 September 1918 as the 39th Regiment, Transportation Corps
- Regiment broken up 12 November 1918-12 December 1918 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company disbanded 12 November 1918 Companies A, B, and C redesignated 12 December 1918 as the 26th, 27th, and 28th Companies, Transportation Corps, respectively
- 26th Company, Transportation Corps, demobilized 11 July 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina; 27th and 28th Companies, Transportation Corps, demobilized 12 July 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
- Regiment reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 39th Engineers
- Activated 1 June 1940 at Camp Ord, California
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1940 as the 19th Engineers
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 19th Engineer Combat Regiment
- Regiment broken up 1 March 1945 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- 1st Battalion as the 401st Engineer Combat Battalion (Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 19th Engineer Combat Group; 2d Battalion as the 402d Engineer Combat Battalion--hereafter separate lineages)
- 401st Engineer Combat Battalion inactivated 6 December 1945 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
- Redesignated 30 January 1947 as the 52d Engineer Combat Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 8 November 1951 as the 52d Armored Engineer Battalion
- Activated 27 November 1951 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Redesignated 21 November 1967 as the 52d Engineer Battalion
- Activated 21 February 1968 at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Reorganized 16 October 1999 as a multi-component unit (Company B allotted to the Oregon Army National Guard; Company C allotted to the Army Reserve)
- (Company C ordered into active military service 10 February 2003 at Santa Fe, New Mexico; released from active military service 17 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status)
- (Company B ordered into active Federal service 11 February 2003 at Albany, Oregon; released from active Federal service 17 June 2004 and reverted to state control)
- Inactivated 15 February 2005 at Fort Carson, Colorado (Company B concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 224th Engineer Company--hereafter separate lineage)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company activated 16 April 2010 at Fort Carson, Colorado (Support Company concurrently constituted in the Regular Army and activated)
- Assigned 17 April 2015 to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (Support Company concurrently inactivated and letter companies activated)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead)
- Tunisia
- Sicily
- Naples-Foggia
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History