420th Engineer Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 October 2008
420th Engineer Company Lineage
Constituted 23 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 420th Engineer Dump Truck Company
Activated 15 April 1943 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Inactivated 30 November 1945 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
Allotted 5 February 1947 to the Organized Reserves
Activated 24 February 1947 at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Location changed 15 April 1947 to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; on 7 January 1949 to Towanda, Pennsylvania
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Ordered into active military service 3 September 1950 at Towanda, Pennsylvania
Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1953 as the 420th Engineer Company
Released from active military service 17 December 1954 and reverted to reserve status
Inactivated 20 July 1955 at Towanda, Pennsylvania
Activated 15 March 1972 at Irwin, Pennsylvania
Location changed 15 September 1975 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Inactivated 1 September 1995 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Activated 16 September 2008 at Indiana, Pennsylvania
420th Engineer Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Decorations
None