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812th Engineer Company
MAJOR SUBORDINATE COMMAND: 16th Engineer Brigade
HOME STATION: Lorain
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
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.
1934 ~ Company K, 145th Infantry, Camp Perry, Ohio, 1934.
1950 ~ Company B, 145th Infantry, Camp Atterbury, Ind., 1950.
1952 ~ Sgt. 1st Class Donald L. Fahlar of Company B, 145th Infantry plots a course and briefs his men before an attack while in training at Camp Polk, La., June 9, 1952.
1965 ~ Company B, 2nd Battalion, 145th Infantry, Camp Grayling, Mich., 1965.
1998 ~ 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 in Washington County in response to the aftermath of severe weather in the summer of 1998.
2008 ~ Combat engineers with the Lorain, Ohio-based 837th Engineer Company train on the Armored Vehicle Launch Bridge June 11, 2008, at the Maneuvers Area Training Equipment Site during their annual training period at Camp Grayling, Mich.
2017 ~ Soldiers from the 812th Engineer Company conduct live-fire exercises with the Javelin weapon system — a one-man-portable, antitank, guided munition and surveillance weapon system, during their annual training at Fort Knox, Ky., in 2017.
Photos from Ohio Army National Guard Historical Collections
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