Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 December 2016
62d Engineer Battalion
- Constituted 16 October 1939 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 18th Engineers
- Activated 21 October 1939 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 2d Battalion, 18th Engineer Combat Regiment
- Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1945 as the 410th Engineer Combat Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 18 October 1945 as the 410th Engineer Construction Battalion
- Redesignated 22 April 1949 as the 62d Engineer Construction Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 62d Engineer Battalion
- (Organic elements inactivated 16 September 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, Support Company concurrently constituted and activated)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- American Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
- Aleutian Islands
- Korean War
- 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
- Vietnam
- Defense
- Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered ALCAN HIGHWAY
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1966
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2008-2009
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996-1997
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2014-2015
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1970
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History
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