Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 October 2012
842d ENGINEER COMPANY
- Constituted 24 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 128th Coast Artillery Battalion
- Activated 29 May 1943 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Redesignated 28 June 1943 as Battery A, 128th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Inactivated 30 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 25 June 1951 as Battery A, 128th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, Mobile, and allotted to the South Dakota Army National Guard
- Redesignated 1 October 1953 as Battery A, 128th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Organized and Federally recognized 5 October 1953 at Spearfish
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 October 1959 as Battery A, 4th Howitzer Battalion, 147th Artillery
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 2d and 3d Platoons, Company C, 109th Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1965 as Company C, 109th Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 4 January 1968 as the 842d Engineer Company
- Ordered into active Federal service in 2003 at Spearfish; released from active Federal service 30 November 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 20 September 2011 at Spearfish
- HOME STATION: Spearfish (less detachments at Belle Fourche, Sturgis, and Lemmon)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Governance
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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