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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division(278 total words in this text)(1661 Reads)  Organized 8 October 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont Reorganized and redesignated 18 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 2d Division Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Division Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division Disbanded 2 May 1960 at Fort Benning, Georgia Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division Activated 16 April 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia Headquarters and Headquarters Company 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918 World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere Belgian Fourragere 1940 Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ELSENBORN CREST Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA |
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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. |
