Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
439th MEDICAL BATTALION
- Constituted 13 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company C, 66th Medical Regiment
- Activated 20 August 1942 at Camp Barkeley, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 September 1943 as the 439th Collecting Company
- Redesignated 14 October 1943 as the 439th Medical Collecting Company
- Inactivated 5 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Allotted 30 January 1948 to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 13 February 1948 at Albany, New York
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 422d Medical Battalion
- Inactivated 31 July 1950 at Albany, New York
- Redesignated 20 April 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 439th Medical Battalion
- Activated 17 September 1992 at Memphis, Tennessee
- Location changed 1 March 1997 to Millington, Tennessee
- Inactivated 15 June 1999 at Millington, Tennessee
- Activated 16 September 2011 at Fort Dix, New Jersey
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History