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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division(345 total words in this text)(2046 Reads)  Organized in February 1918 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an element of the 15th Cavalry Division Relieved 12 May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division Demobilized 14 July 1919 at Brownsville, Texas Reconstituted 20 August 1920 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division Organized 1 September 1921 at Camp Harry J. Jones, Arizona Inactivated 25 March 1949 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division Converted and redesignated 20 May 1949 as Headquarters, 1st Constabulary Brigade, assigned to the United States Constabulary, and activated in Germany Relieved 24 November 1950 from assignment to the United States Constabulary Inactivated 15 August 1951 in Germany Disbanded 5 December 1951 Reconstituted 15 July 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division Activated 1 September 1963 in Korea Headquarters and Headquarters Company 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead); Leyte (with arrowhead); Luzon Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LUZON Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PLEIKU PROVINCE Valorous Unit Award for FISH HOOK Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1965-1969 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969-1970 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1970-1971 Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1969-1970 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
