Sa Lineage And Honors Information
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Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 February 2007
Constituted 1 July 1933 in the Organized Reserves as the 664th Engineer Battalion
Organized by 1937 in Michigan
Redesignated 21 February 1941 az the 757th Engineer Battalion
Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 757th Engineer Railway Shop Battalion
Convarted and redesignated 16 Novernber 1942 as the 757th Railway Shop Battalion,
Transportation Corps:
Ordered into active military service 3 June 1943 at the Army Service Forces Unit Training
Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Inactivated 7 December 1949 at Camp Kilmer, Nev Jersey
Redesignated 23 March 1948 as the 757th Transportation Railay Shop Battalion
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps:
redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Activated 8 April 1948 with Headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Inactivated 25 October 1951 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Activated 25 August 1952 with Headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Redesignated 1 January 1955 as the 757th Transportation Battalion
Battalion broken up 31 January 1968 and its elements reorganized and redesignated a=
Follove:
Headquarters and Headquarters Company as Headquarters, 757th Transportation
Battalion
(Companies A, 8, C, and Das the 1150th, 1151st, 11524, and 1153d Transportation
‘Companies, respectively--hereafter separate lineages)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion
Inactivated 16 December 1980 at Milvaukee, Wisconsin
Redesignated 16 May 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 757th
‘Transportation Battalion and activated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Location changed 4 July 1987 to West Allis, Wisconsin; on 15 September 1993 to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1998 as Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion
Location changed 16 September 1993 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Detachment ordered into active military service 2 January 2003 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
remainder of battalion ordered into active military service 10 Fabruary 2003 at Milvaukee,
Wisconsin
Battalion (les Detachment) released from active military service 4 June 2003 and reverted to
reserve status; Detachment released from active military service 1 November 2003 and reverted to
reserve status
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War IT: Normandy: Northern France: Central Europe
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER,
‘Army Superior Unit Award for 1990-1991
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