Lineage
- Constituted 20 December 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Group
- Activated 27 December 1943 at Camp Hood, Texas
- Reorganized and redesigned 27 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Service Group
- Reorganized and redesigned 20 December 1946 as the 52d Ordnance Composite Group
- Inactivated 30 June 1948 in Austria
- Redesignated 8 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Ordnance Group, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 28 January 1952 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 16 May 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Activated 2 December 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 20 October 1967 in Vietnam
- Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52D Ordnance Group (EOD), and activated at Fort Gillem, Georgia
- Reassigned in early 2009 to Fort Campbell, KY with 184 OD BN (EOD)
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