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Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 May 2012

548th TRANSPORTATION DETACHMENT

  • Constituted 28 May 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 53d Quartermaster Truck Battalion
  • Activated 22 June 1943 in North Africa
  • Reorganized and redesignated 22 May 1944 as the 3338th Quartermaster Truck Company
  • Inactivated 25 October 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
  • Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3338th Transportation Corps Truck Company
  • Redesignated 5 October 1948 as the 218th Transportation Amphibious Truck Company and concurrently allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 19 October 1948 at Columbus, Georgia
  • Inactivated 1 September 1950 at Columbus, Georgia
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 30 September 1958 as the 218th Transportation Company
  • Activated 15 October 1958 at Columbus, Georgia
  • Inactivated 15 January 1963 at Columbus, Georgia
  • Consolidated 28 May 2004 with the 548th Transportation Detachment (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 548th Transportation Detachment
  • Ordered into active military service 11 November 2011 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • ANNEX
  • Constituted 21 March 2000 in the Army Reserve as the 548th Transportation Detachment
  • Activated 16 September 2002 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Sicily
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Anzio (with arrowhead)
  • Rome-Arno
  • Southern France (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe

Decorations

  • None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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