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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division(271 total words in this text)(1934 Reads)  Organized 8 June 1917 at New York, New York Redesignated 6 July 1917 as Headquarters, 1st Division Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 1st Infantry Division Reorganized and redesignated 20 April 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division Headquarters and Headquarters Company 1st Infantry Division Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1917; Lorraine 1918; Picardy 1918 World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; 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 Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Army Superior Unit Award for 1997 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for KASSERINE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere Belgian Fourragere 1940 Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at MONS Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at EUPEN-MALMEDY Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1965-1968 Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1965-1970 |
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1775:
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. |
