73rd Engineer Company Airborne River Rats Army Challenge Coin Department / Agency Quantities minted: 259 Gold toned

Quantities minted: 259 Gold toned color

only four SMUs have been publicly disclosed:

but I will never forget this project

on 1 May 1987

Type 1 was the initial coin made

73rd Engineer Company Airborne River Rats Army Challenge Coin Department / Agency Quantities minted: 259 Gold toned1 1 2 inch Challenge Coin, circa 1980s. The 73rd Engineer Company was first constituted on 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 73rd Engineer Company and activated on 1 August 1941 at Fort Lewis, Washington. It was reorganized and redesignated on 8 June 1942 as the 73rd Engineer Light Ponton Company. During the Second World War, the Company recieved streamers for 4 campaigns: American Theater (streamer without inscription), Asiatic Pacific