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304th Transportation Company(208 total words in this text)(4198 Reads)  Constituted 1 April 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company C, 519th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1943 as the 304th Port Company and activated at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Allotted 27 February 1947 to the Organized Reserves Activated 11 March 1947 at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Location changed 14 May 1947 to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Redesignated 13 October 1947 as the 304th Transportation Port Company (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1953 as the 304th Transportation Company Inactivated 18 December 1953 at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Activated 16 October 1995 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts Location changed 17 September 2001 to Springfield, Massachusetts 304th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland Decorations French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Antwerp |
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