Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 June 2013
485th Engineer Company
- Constituted 22 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 1480th Engineer Maintenance Company
- Activated 27 March 1944 at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi
- Inactivated 31 May 1946 in the Philippines
- Redesignated 9 December 1948 as the 485th Engineer Dump Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 28 March 1949 at Phoenix, Arizona
- Ordered into active military service 19 August 1950 at Phoenix, Arizona
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 485th Engineer Company
- Released from active military service 20 January 1955 and reverted to reserve status with location at Camp Stoneman,
California
- Inactivated 1 May 1959 at Camp Stoneman, California
- Activated 16 September 2008 at Rockford, Illinois
- Ordered into active military service 14 January 2010 at Rockford Illinois; released from active military service 5 December 2010 and reverted to reserve status
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- European-African-Middle Eastern Theater,
- Streamer without inscription
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
- Streamer without inscription
- Korean War
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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