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Lineage and Honors Information as of 3 April 2012

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS
DETACHMENT
483d TRANSPORTATION BATTALION

  • Constituted 31 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 483d Port Battalion, Transportation Corps
  • Activated 30 September 1942 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
  • Reorganized and redesignated 24 January 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 483d Port Battalion
  • Inactivated 28 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Redesignated 2 November 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 483d Transportation Port Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 5 December 1948 at Los Angeles, California
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1950 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 483d Transportation Port Battalion
  • Inactivated 30 November 1950 at Los Angeles, California
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 16 April 1956 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 483d Transportation Battalion
  • Activated 7 May 1956 at Oakland, California
  • Ordered into active military service 15 October 1961 at Oakland, California; released from active military service 5 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 20 January 1968 to the Presidio of San Francisco, California
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 483d Transportation Battalion
  • Location changed 1 July 1972 to Oakland, California; on 25 July 2000 to Vallejo, California
  • Ordered into active military service 12 August 2004 at Vallejo, California; released from active military service 7 February 2006 and reverted to reserve status
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 483d Transportation Battalion

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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