Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 January 2018
948th Transportation Company
- Constituted 31 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 489th Quartermaster Battalion
- Activated 15 December 1942 as Company A, 489th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1943 as the 612th Port Company
- Inactivated 28 February 1946 in Japan
- Redesignated 12 May 1947 as the 948th Transportation Post Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 27 May 1947 at Gary, Indiana
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Redesignated 16 February 1953 as the 948th Transportation Company
- Location changed 31 December 1965 to Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Inactivated 16 December 1979 at Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Activated 16 September 2017 at Marysville, Washington
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
Decorations
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History