Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Battalion, 29th Quartermaster Regiment

Activated 4 March 1942 at Fort Ord, California

Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1943 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 29th Quartermaster Truck Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 3443d Quartermaster Truck Company

Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3443d Transportation Corps Truck Company

Redesignated 30 June 1947 as the 73d Transportation Truck Company

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 73d Transportation Company

Inactivated 25 September 1958 in Korea

Activated 1 September 1959 at Fort Eustis, Virginia

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                        World War II
                                                        East Indies
                                                        Papua
                                                        New Guinea
                                                        Luzon

                                                        Korean War
                                                        UN Defensive
                                                        UN Offensive
                                                        CCF Intervention
                                                        First UN Counteroffensive
                                                        CCF Spring Offensive
                                                        UN Summer-Fall Offensive
                                                        Second Korean Winter
                                                        Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
                                                        Third Korean Winter
                                                        Korea, Summer 1953

                                                        Southwest Asia
                                                        Defense of Saudi Arabia
                                                        Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
                                                        Cease-Fire

 

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: