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Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 March 2014

453d Transportation Company

  • Constituted 1 May 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 453d Amphibian Truck Company, Transportation Corps, and activated at the Charleston Port of Embarkation, Charleston, South Carolina
  • Inactivated 22 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Allotted 22 April 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 3 May 1947 at Charleston, South Carolina
  • Redesignated 26 January 1948 as the 453d Transportation Amphibious Truck Company
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 1 December 1952 as the 453d Transportation Company
  • Ordered into active military service 1 October 1961 at Charleston, South Carolina; released from active military service 9 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status
  • Inactivated 1 December 1964 at Charleston, South Carolina
  • Activated 16 April 1996 at New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Location changed 16 September 1999 to Houston, Texas
  • Elements ordered into active military service 25 September 2003 at Houston, Texas; released from active military service 17 December 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 5 March 2007 and 5 July 2007 at Houston, Texas; released from active military service 7 August 2008 and 30 August 2008 and reverted to reserve status
  • Elements ordered into active military service 18 August 2009 at Houston, Texas; released from active military service 21 September 2010 and reverted to reserve status

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

  • War on Terrorism
  • Consolidation II

DECORATIONS

  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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