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112th Engineer Battalion coat of arms

PARENT UNIT

Headquarters Company, 73rd Infantry Brigade

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH

2 February 1926, Akron, Ohio

MISSION

To conduct mobility, counter mobility, survivability tasks and provide support of general engineering missions, in support of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) and supported units.

CAMPAIGN CREDIT

World War II
Northern Solomons (with arrowhead)
Luzon (with arrowhead)
Normandy, Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

War on Terrorism
Afghanistan: Transition I

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation(Army)
Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER 13 JULY - 31 DECEMBER 1944

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army)
Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2013

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ANTWERP

Organized graphic, reads: Feb 2, 1926: 812th Engineering Company is organized in Akron as Headquarters Company, 73rd Infantry Brigade

The 812th Engineer Company is organized in Akron, Ohio as Headquarters Company, 73rd Infantry Brigade. The company bears eight campaign streamers from World War II and the War on Terrorism and two Meritorious Unit Commendations from each conflict. In this 1998 photo, Spc. William Phelps of Company B, 112th Engineer Battalion, uses a chain saw to clear a fallen tree from a bridge in Lower Salem, Ohio, during a state active duty mission to Washington County in response to the aftermath of severe weather. The unit served as Company B between 1971 and 2007.

Photos from Ohio Army National Guard Historical Collections

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