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526th Engineer Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 June 2009

526th Engineer Company Lineage

Constituted 7 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 526th Engineer Light Ponton Company

Activated 20 April 1944 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1945 as the 526th Engineer Panel Bridge Transport Company

Reorganized and redesignated 27 May 1949 as the 526th Engineer Panel Bridge Company; concurrently allotted to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 526th Engineer Company

Inactivated 31 March 1971 in Korea

Activated 16 October 2008 at Fort Stewart, Georgia

526th Engineer Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe

Korean War: UN Offensive; 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 1953


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