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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 84th Division (Training)(219 total words in this text)(2487 Reads)  Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky Demobilized 26 July 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 84th Division Organized 28 September 1921 at Indianapolis, Indiana Redesignated 23 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 84th Division Ordered into active military service 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas, as Headquarters, 84th Infantry Division Inactivated 21 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 19 December 1946 as Headquarters, 84th Airborne Division Activated 24 September 1947 at Madison, Wisconsin Location changed 17 November 1947 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; on 15 March 1948 to Madison, Wisconsin (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1952 as Headquarters, 84th Infantry Division Location changed 20 August 1957 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Reorganized and redesignated 18 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 84th Division (Training) Headquarters and Headquarters Company 84th Division (Training) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Streamer without inscription 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
