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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
Constituted 30 June 1931 in the Regular Army as the Band, 15th Coast Artillery and activated in Hawaii
Reorganized and redesignated 23 May 1944 as the 76th Army Ground Forces Band Inactivated 31 May 1947 in Japan Redesignated 7 April 1952 as the 76th Army Band Activated 5 May 1952 in France 76th Army Band Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - AP: Central Pacific Decorations Army Superior Unit Award for 1991 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |