Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 March 2017
355th Chemical Company
- Constituted 21 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 80th Chemical Smoke Generator Company
- Activated 20 July 1942 at Fort McClellan, Alabama
- Disbanded 5 July 1945 in France
- Reconstituted 9 August 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps as the 355th Chemical Smoke Generator Company
- Activated 24 August 1948 at Linden, New Jersey
- Ordered into active military service 11 September 1950 at Linden, New Jersey
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1953 as the 355th Chemical Company
- Released from active military service 26 November 1954 and reverted to reserve status
- Location changed 1 October 1955 to Buffalo, New York; on 1 October 1970 to Niagara Falls, New York; on 1 December 1975 to Altoona, Pennsylvania; on 1 February 1976 to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; and on 18 September 1999 to Las Vegas, Nevada
- Element ordered into active military service 23 June 2007 at Las Vegas, Nevada; released from active military service 26 July 2008 and reverted to reserve status
- Location changed 20 September 2015 to Sloan, Nevada
- Ordered into active military service 22 September 2016 at Sloan, Nevada
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
None
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History