484th Engineer Detachment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 August 2008
484th Engineer Detachment Lineage
Constituted 14 March 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2153d Engineer Aviation Fire Fighting Platoon
Activated 27 March 1944 in England
Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Germany
Redesignated 28 June 1949 as the 484th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
Activated 7 July 1949 at Lynchburg, Virginia
(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1953 as the 484th Engineer Platoon
Redesignated 6 September 1954 as the 484th Engineer Detachment
Inactivated 25 May 1959 at Lynchburg, Virginia
Activated 30 January 1968 at Alexandria, Virginia
Location changed 15 December 1975 to Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Inactivated 31 May 1978 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Activated 16 September 1988 at New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Location changed 30 September 1990 to Fort Gillem, Georgia
Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Gillem, Georgia
Activated 16 October 1999 at Montgomery, Alabama
484th Engineer Detachment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe
Decorations
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes