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Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support)(274 total words in this text)(1773 Reads)  Organized in September 1917 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Demobilized 9 July 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 78th Division Organized in February 1922 at Newark, New Jersey Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 78th Division Ordered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Butner, North Carolina; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters Company, 78th Infantry Division Inactivated 22 May 1946 in Germany Activated 1 November 1946 at Newark, New Jersey (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Location changed 9 November 1955 to Kearny, New Jersey; on 6 December 1958 to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Disbanded 1 May 1959 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 78th Division (Training) Activated 31 January 1968 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey Location changed 11 November 1983 to Red Bank, New Jersey; on 1 February 1993 to Edison, New Jersey Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 78th Division (Exercise) Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) Headquarters 1st Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918 World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations None |
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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. |
