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Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 March 2017

368th Engineer Detachment

  • Constituted 25 August 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2868th Engineer Service Detachment
  • Activated 10 October 1944 at Finschafen, New Guinea
  • Reorganized and redesignated 28 December 1944 as the 2868th Engineer Utilities Detachment
  • Inactivated 30 May 1947 in the Philippines
  • Redesignated 6 July 1948 as the 368th Utilities Detachment and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 16 July 1948 at Akron, Ohio
  • Inactivated 7 July 1949 at Akron, Ohio
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 27 October 1954 as the 368th Engineer Detachment
  • Activated 23 November 1954 at Washington, D.C.
  • Location changed 12 January 1957 to Alexandria, Virginia; on 1 December 1960 to Washington, D.C.
  • Ordered into active military service 15 October 1961 at Washington, D.C.; released from active military service 1 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 2 August 1962 to Alexandria, Virginia; on 1 December 1975 to Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 1980 as the 343d Engineer Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1988 as the 1343d Engineer Detachment and concurrently location changed to New Kensington, Pennsylvania
  • Inactivated 15 February 1996 at New Kensington, Pennsylvania
  • Redesignated 9 September 2009 as the 368th Engineer Detachment
  • Activated 16 September 2010 at Decatur, Georgia

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Leyte

Decorations

  • Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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