Department of the Army
  539th Transportation Company (AGS)
Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Battalion, 48th Quartermaster Regiment

Activated 1 August 1940 at Camp Sheridan, Illinois

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1942 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 48th Quartermaster Truck Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as 3523d Quartermaster Truck Company

Converted, reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1946 as 3523d Quartermaster Truck Company

Reorganized and redesignated 30 June 1947 as 539th Transportation Truck Company

Reorganized and redesignated 26 April 1954 as 539th Transportation Company

Inactivated 1 June 1955 in Korea

Activated 21 August 1962 New Cumberland General Depot, Pennsylvania

Inactivated 30 June 71 in Vietnam

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

WORLD WAR II
  East Indies
Papua
  New Guinea
  Biamarck Archipelago
                                    
                                                     KOREAN WAR
  UN defensive
  UN offensive
   CCF intervention
    First UN counteroffensive
    CCF spring offensive
     UN summer-fall offensive
      Second Korean winter
      Korea, summer-fall 1952
       Third Korean winter
       Korea, summer 1953
 
VIETNAM
       Counteroffensive, phase II
        Counteroffensive, phase III
         Tet counteroffensive
          Counteroffensive, phase IV
         Counteroffensive, phase V
         Counteroffensive, phase VI
         Tet 1969 counteroffensive
          Summer-Fall 1969
          Winter-Spring 1970
            Sanctuary counteroffensive
              Counteroffensive, phase VII

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA
     Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951
     Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
     Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered
     KOREA 1950-1953
     Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered
     KOREA 1952-1953
     Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
     Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
     Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer
     embroidered VIETNAM 1971
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

                                                                                      KENNETH G. WICKHAM
                                                                                      Major General, USA
                                                                                      The Adjutant General