Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size
Login

Military Photos



Online
There are 2044 users online

You can register for a user account here.
Library of Congress

Military Quotes

The power of example is very important to people under stress.

-- General Sir John Hackett

203d Personnel Services Battalion

(96 total words in this text)
(1877 Reads)  Printer-friendly page
Constituted 27 March 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 52d Replacement Battalion

Activated 25 May 1943 at Camp Sutton, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1943 as the 203d Replacement Company

Inactivated 20 October 1945 at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania

Redesignated 16 March 1987 as the 203d Personnel Service Company, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated at Fort Richardson, Alaska

203d Personnel Services Battalion Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater, Streamer without inscription

Decorations

None

Military History
Forum Posts

Military Polls

Should the United States Focus its Resources on Building a Missile Defense System?

[ Results | Polls ]

Votes: 99

This Day in History
1738: English parliament declares war on Spain.

1800: The USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope.

1814: The HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture the USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile.

1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia.

1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass.

1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.

1917: The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women.

1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.

1941: Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean.

1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.