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Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 February 2011

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875th ENGINEER COMPANY

 

Organized and Federally recognized 23 June 1921 in the North Carolina National Guard at North Wilkesboro as Company A, 105th Engineers, an element of the 30th Division

Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at North Wilkesboro

Redesignated 7 February 1942 as Company D, 175th Engineers, and relieved from assignment to the 30th Division (later redesignated as the 30th Infantry Division

Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company D, 2d Battalion, 175th Engineer General Service Regiment

Inactivated 15 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Reorganized and Federally recognized 3 February 1948 at North Wilkesboro as Battery C, 112th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 30th Infantry Division

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 April 1959 as Company C, 2d Battle Group, 120th Infantry, an element of the 30th Infantry Division

Redesignated 10 March 1963 as Company C, 2d Battalion, 120th Infantry

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 January 1968 as the 1452d Transportation Company, and relieved from assignment to the 30th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1971 as Company B, 230th Supply and Transport Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1973 as the 1453d Transportation Company

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 December 1975 as Company D, 505th Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1989 as Company A, 505th Engineer Battalion

Ordered into active Federal service 3 September 2002 at North Wilkesboro; released from active Federal service 2 September 2003 and reverted to state control

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2006 as the 875th Engineer Company

HOME STATION:  North Wilkesboro (less detachment at Lexington)

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                            World War II
                                                            Tunisia
                                                            Sicily
                                                            Naples-Foggia
                                                            Rome-Arno
                                                            North Apennines
                                                            Po Valley

 

DECORATIONS

None

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

PETER D. CREAN
COL, LG
Director, Center of Military History


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