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Lineage and Honors Information as of 31 March 2016

305th Engineer Detachment

  • Constituted 28 December 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2901st Engineer Technical Intelligence Team
  • Activated 27 January 1945 at Paris, France
  • Inactivated 9 November 1945 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
  • Redesignated 13 June 1947 as the 305th Engineer Technical Intelligence Team and allotted to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 21 June 1947 at New York, New York
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Ordered into active military service 11 September 1950 at New York, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 14 September 1953 as the 305th Engineer Detachment
  • Released from active military service 4 December 1954 and reverted to reserve status
  • Inactivated 15 February 1956 at New York, New York
  • Activated 15 March 1972 at Fort Tilden, New York
  • Location changed 27 July 1978 to Fort Totten, New York; on 15 May 1990 to Brooklyn, New York; on 1 February 1997 to Staten Island, New York

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Theater,
  • Streamer without inscription

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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