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58th Engineer Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2009

58th Engineer Company Lineage

Constituted 15 August 1917 in the National Army as Company E, 26th Engineer Regiment

Organized in September 1917 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Redesignated 1 November 1917 as Company E, 24th Engineer Regiment

Demobilized 3 June 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina

Reconstituted 3 April 1931 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Company E, 24th Engineer Regiment (constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army), and consolidated unit designated as Company E, 24th Engineer Regiment

Redesignated 13 January 1941 as Company E, 24th Engineer Battalion

Activated 15 April 1941 at Pine Camp, New York, as an element of the 4th Armored Division

Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Company E, 24th Armored Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 10 September 1943 as the 988th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company and relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division

Reorganized and redesignated 6 May 1949 as the 58th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company

Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1953 as the 58th Engineer Float Bridge Company

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 58th Engineer Company

Inactivated 25 July 1955 in Japan

Redesignated 6 May 1957 as the 58th Armored Engineer Company

Activated 1 June 1957 in Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 10 June 1960 as the 58th Engineer Company

Inactivated 15 October 1993 in Germany

Activated 16 October 1994 at Fort Irwin, California

58th Engineer Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne

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; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1954

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950


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