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647th Transportation Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2007

647th Transportation Company Lineage

Constituted 28 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2079th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation

Activated 1 January 1943 at Santa Maria Army Air Base, California

Inactivated 25 March 1946 in Japan

Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 2079th Transportation Corps Truck Company

Redesignated 6 July 1948 as the 647th Transportation Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps

Activated 28 July 1948 at Birmingham, Alabama

(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1950 as the 647th Transportation Heavy Truck Company

Inactivated 31 December 1950 at Birmingham, Alabama

Activated 31 March 1953 at Opp, Alabama

Reorganized and redesignated 30 April 1953 as the 647th Transportation Company

Location changed 20 October 1957 to Birmingham, Alabama

Inactivated 15 May 1959 at Birmingham, Alabama

Activated 16 October 1995 at Laurel, Mississippi

Ordered into active military service 15 October 2001 at Laurel, Mississippi; released from active military service 14 October 2002 and reverted to reserve status

Ordered into active military service 21 January 2003 at Laurel, Mississippi; released from active military service 20 January 2004 and reverted to reserve status

647th Transportation Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: New Guinea; Leyte; Luzon

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

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


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