Lineages and Honors Information
Engineer Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 Sept 2021
394th Engineer Company
- Constituted 1 April 1927 in the Organized Reserves as the 743d Engineer Shop
Company - Organized in 1927 at Boston, Massachusetts
- Location changed 8 April 1929 to Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Redesignated 20 August 1931 as the 743d Engineer Company
- Location changed 21 May 1936 to Chicago, Illinois
- Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 743d Engineer Shop Company
- Redesignated 7 May 1942 as the 743d Engineer Heavy Shop Company
- Ordered into active military service 18 August 1943 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
- Inactivated 20 May 1946 in the Philippines
- Redesignated 9 May 1947 as the 394th Engineer Heavy Shop Company
- Activated 30 May 1947 at Knoxville, Tennessee
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1951 as the 394th Engineer Base Maintenance Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1952 as the 394th Engineer Heavy Shop Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1952 as the 394th Engineer Company
- Location changed 1 December 1957 to Kingsport, Tennessee
- Inactivated 15 May 1959 at Kingsport, Tennessee
- Activated 15 January 1963 at Morristown, Tennessee
- Location changed 1 April 1963 to Kingsport, Tennessee
- Inactivated 31 January 1968 at Kingsport, Tennessee
- Activated 16 July 1996 at Bardstown, Kentucky
- Inactivated 15 September 2006 at Bardstown, Kentucky
- Activated 16 September 2020 at Bell, California
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- New Guinea
- 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