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


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