242nd Engineer Detachment (Construction Management)

Lineage and Honors
242d ENGINEER BATTALION
 
Organized and Federally recognized 13 December 1922 in the Connecticut National Guard at Bridgeport as the 1st Battalion. 242d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) from the following units:
 
337th Company, Coast Artillery Corps (organized 11 September 1861 as Light Infantry Company B, 8th Regiment)
338th Company. Coast Artillery Corps (organized 18 September 1863 as Light Infantry Company K. 8th Regiment)
339th Company, Coast Artillery Corps (organized and Federally recognized 30 October 1922)
 
Redesignated 29 May 1924 as the 1st Battalion, 242d Coast Artillery
 
Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated l April 1927 as the 242d Coast Artillery
 
Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at home stations
 
(3d Battalion redesignated 13 September 1943 as the 2d Battalion. 23d Coast Artillery- hereafter separate lineage)
 
Regiment broken up 7 October 1944 and it elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
 
Headquarters-and Headquarters Battery. 1st Battalion, and Batteries A. D, F, G, and H as the 242d Coast Artillery Battalion
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, and Batteries B, C, and E as the·190th Coast Artillery Battalion
(Band as the 87th Army Ground Forces Band - hereafter, separate lineage; (Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, and Medical Detachment disbanded)
 
190th and 242d Coast Artillery Battalions inactivated 1 April 1945 at Fort Michie, New York
 
Elements of the 190th and 242d Coast Artillery Battalions consolidated and redesignated 31 May 1946 as the 283d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
 
283d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion reorganized and Federally recognized 23 December 1946 in south-central Connecticut with Headquarters at BridgeportReorgan1zed and redes1gnated 25 June 1951 as the 283d Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
 
Redesignated 1 October 1953 as the 283d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
 
(Location of Headquarters changed 16 September 1956 to Stratford)
 
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 3d Gun Battalion. 242d Artillery
 
Converted and redesignated 1 July 1961 as the 242d Engineer Battalion
 
HOME AREA: South-central Connecticut
 
 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
 
World War I
Oise-Aisne
Meuse-Argonne
Champagne 1918

 
Company A (Stratford) additionally entitled to:
 

Civil War
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
South Carolina 1863
South Carolina 1864
Florida 1864

 
Company B (Putnam) additionally entitled to:
 

World  War II-AP
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Northern Solomons
East Indies
Bismarck Archipelago
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Luzon (with arrowhead)

 
Company C  (West Haven) additionally entitled to:

World War  I
Champagne-Marne
Aisne-Marne
St. Mihiel
Ile de France 1918
Lorraine 1918

 

World War II-AP
Papua
New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago
East Indies (with arrowhead)
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Luzon

Company D (Enfield) additionally entitled to:
 

World War II-AP
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Northern Solomons
Luzon (with arrowhead)

 
 

 
Company B {Putnam) entitled to:
 
Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered NEW ZEALAND
 
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
 
Company C (West Haven) entitled to:
 
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA
 
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
 
Company D {Enfield) entitled to:
 
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945


Effective 10 SEPTEMBER 2005, Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Companies of the 242 Engineer Battalion reorganized as Infantry Companies under the 1-102 Infantry Battalion for mobilization to Afghanistan.