Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 April 2015
461st Engineer Company
- Constituted 24 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 461st Engineer Depot Company
- Activated 15 July 1942 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma
- Inactivated 31 October 1945 in Schwetzingen, Germany
- Redesignated 11 April 1947 as the 461st Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 28 April 1947 at Lawrence, Kansas
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Location changed 19 April 1948 to Kansas City, Kansas; on 5 April 1949 to Manhattan, Kansas
- Inactivated 19 September 1950 at Manhattan, Kansas
- Activated 27 February 1951 at York, Nebraska
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1952 as the 461st Engineer Pipeline Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1954 as the 461st Engineer Company
- Inactivated 14 September 1954 at York, Nebraska
- Activated 11 January 1956 at Casper, Wyoming
- Location changed 15 July 2000 to Fargo, North Dakota
- Ordered into active military service 10 February 2003 at Fargo, North Dakota; released from active military service 19 June 2003 and reverted to reserve status
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Rhineland
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History
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