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461st Engineer Company

  • Constituted 24 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 461st Engineer Depot Company
  • Activated 15 July 1942 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma
  • Inactivated 31 October 1945 in Schwetzingen, Germany
  • Redesignated 11 April 1947 as the 461st Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 28 April 1947 at Lawrence, Kansas
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 19 April 1948 to Kansas City, Kansas; on 5 April 1949 to Manhattan, Kansas
  • Inactivated 19 September 1950 at Manhattan, Kansas
  • Activated 27 February 1951 at York, Nebraska
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1952 as the 461st Engineer Pipeline Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1954 as the 461st Engineer Company
  • Inactivated 14 September 1954 at York, Nebraska
  • Activated 11 January 1956 at Casper, Wyoming
  • Location changed 15 July 2000 to Fargo, North Dakota
  • Ordered into active military service 10 February 2003 at Fargo, North Dakota; released from active military service 19 June 2003 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe

DECORATIONS

None

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

RICHARD W. STEWART, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History


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