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510th Personnel Services Battalion(225 total words in this text)(1977 Reads)  Activated 15 June 1944 in Italy Disbanded 6 August 1945 in Italy Reconstituted 27 September 1951 in the Regular Army as the 510th Replacement Company Activated 1 November 1951 in Korea Inactivated 25 March 1953 in Korea Activated 1 February 1966 at Fort Benning, Georgia Inactivated 30 April 1972 in Vietnam Redesignated 21 October 1978 as the 510th Personnel Service Company, and activated in Italy Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1994 as the 510th Personnel Services Battalion 510th Personnel Services Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: North Apennines; Po Valley; Rome-Arno Korean War: UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1951-1953 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1969-1970 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953 |
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American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1796: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy. 1857: The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British. 1861: Union troops and civilians riot in St. Louis. 1862: The Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee takes place. 1863: General Thomas J. Jackson dies of pneumonia a week after losing his arm when his own troops accidentally fired on him during the Battle of Chancellorsville. 1865: Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia. 1917: Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. 1940: As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. 1941: Englands House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz as 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs. |
