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Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 March 2011

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532d Signal Company

 

Constituted 12 April 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 3251st Signal Service Company

Activated 27 April 1944 in England

Inactivated 13 November 1945 in England

Redesignated 6 May 1948 as the 532d Signal Service Company

Activated 20 June 1948 in Austria

Inactivated 1 December 1949 in Austria

Redesignated 12 June 1950 as the 532d Signal Construction Company

Activated 26 June 1950 in Japan

Inactivated 2 November 1951 in Korea

Redesignated 8 January 1952 as the 532d Signal Installation Company and allotted to the Regular  Army

Activated 16 February 1952 at Camp San Luis Obispo, California

Reorganized and redesignated 12 March 1953 as the 532d Signal Company

Inactivated 25 June 1956 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois

Activated 1 May 1960 in France

Inactivated 1 July 1967 in Germany

Activated 1 October 1968 in Vietnam

Inactivated 1 March 1970 in Vietnam

Activated 10 February 1971 in Vietnam

Inactivated 25 April 1971 in Vietnam

Activated 4 May 1973 in Germany

Inactivated 15 September 1994 in the Netherlands

Activated 16 January 2011 at Fort Bliss, Texas, and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division


World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Korean War
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive

Vietnam
Counteroffensive, Phase V
Counteroffensive, Phase VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer-Fall 1969
Winter-Spring 1970
Counteroffensive, Phase VII

 

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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