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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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