Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 September 2015
363d Engineer Battalion
- Constituted 19 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2d Battalion, 82d Engineer Combat Regiment
- Activated 25 January 1943 at Camp Swift, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 29 March 1943 as the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion
- Inactivated 20 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
- Redesignated 6 May 1947 as the 363d Engineer Combat Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 21 May 1947 at Louisville, Kentucky
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Inactivated 30 June 1950 at Louisville, Kentucky
- Redesignated 2 May 2013 as the 363d Engineer Battalion
- Activated 16 September 2015 at Knightdale, North Carolina
Campaign Participation Credit
- Vietnam
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MALMEDY
- French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered MALMEDY
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History