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Headquarters, 85th Division (Training Support)(236 total words in this text)(1866 Reads)  Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan Demobilized 18 April 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 85th Division Organized 10 September 1921 at Detroit, Michigan Redesignated 31 March 1942 as Division Headquarters, 85th Division Ordered into active military service 15 May 1942 and reorganized at Camp Shelby, Mississippi Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 85th Infantry Division Disbanded 25 August 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Reconstituted 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 85th Infantry Division Activated 19 February 1947 at Litchfield, Illinois Location changed 10 July 1947 to Springfield, Illinois (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Location changed 1 March 1949 to Chicago, Illinois Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Training) Location changed 15 May 1984 to Arlington Heights, Illinois Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Exercise) Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Training Support) Headquarters 85th Division (Training Support) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Streamer without inscription World War II: Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
