418th Transportation Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 January 2003

418th Transportation Company Lineage

Constituted 13 April 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 418th Port Company, Transportation Corps

Activated 5 June 1944 in Algeria

Inactivated 11 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Redesignated 8 September 1947 as the 418th Transportation Port Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves

Activated 22 September 1947 at Newark, New Jersey

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Inactivated 6 May 1952 at Newark, New Jersey

Redesignated 18 April 1967 as the 418th Transportation Company; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army

Activated 6 July 1967 at Fort Hood, Texas

418th Transportation Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II-EAME: Rhineland; Central Europe

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA