Kiss-Cut Stickers - 52nd Signal Battalion (Modified Support) w SVC Ribbon
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The 52d Signal Battalion was constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army and later activated on 10 February 1941 at Fort Sam Houston, TX. On 2 February 1942, the battalion arrived in Australia, and subsequently worked its way through Dutch New Guinea, and eventually the Philippines before the end of the war. The battalion participated in a total of four campaigns during the war to include Dutch New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon, and the southern Philippines. It was during these campaigns that the battalion received the honor of being known as "MacAuthur's Own" The battalion completed its valiant service in the South Pacific and was inactivated in Korea on 25 January 1949.On 15 October 1966, the battalion was reactivated in Can Tho, Republic of Vietnam, at Fort Lewis, and assumed operational control of all area communications facilities in support of IV Corps, US MACV Advisory Teams. Over the next four years, the 52d Signal Battalion would participate in twelve separate campaigns throughout the Republic of Vietnam. In the fall of 1971, the battalion began to stand down and was subsequently inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington on 12 October 1971.
On 1 July 1974, less than three years later, the battalion was again activated at its present home at Patch Barracks, Vaihingen, Germany.