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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. -- General William T. Sherman |
Constituted 24 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 75th Infantry Division
Activated 15 April 1943 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Allotted 21 February 1952 to the Organized Reserve Corps Activated 1 March 1952 at Houston, Texas (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Houston, Texas Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 75th Division (Exercise), and activated at Houston, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 75th Division (Training Support) Headquarters 75th Division (Training Support) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations None |
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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. |