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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
3d Space Launch Squadron(137 total words in this text)(3023 Reads)  Constituted 3d Space Launch Squadron on 26 Mar 1992. Activated on 1 Apr 1992. Assignments 45th Operations Group, 1 Apr 1992?. Stations Cape Canaveral AFS, FL, 1 Apr 1992?. Operations Atlas II launch operations, Apr 1992?. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: [1 Apr 1992]?30 Sep 1992. Emblem Azure, a globe Celeste gridlined Argent surmounted in sinister chief by a flight symbol ascending bendwise sinister of the third issuing a tripartited contrail voluting the globe in perspective conjoined as one at the terminus Or, all above a plate, garnished of the first in sinister base, all within a diminished bordure Yellow. Approved on 15 Jun 1994 (DFSC 94?02297). |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
