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Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support)(276 total words in this text)(1888 Reads)  Organized in September 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan Demobilized in April 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 85th Division Organized 18 October 1922 at Detroit, Michigan Reorganized and redesignated 31 March 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 85th Division Ordered into active military service 15 May 1942 and reorganized at Camp Shelby, Mississippi Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 85th Infantry Division Disbanded 25 August 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Reconstituted 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 85th Infantry Division Activated 19 February 1947 at Chicago, 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 15 January 1953 to Chicago, Illinois Disbanded 1 June 1959 at Chicago, Illinois Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 85th Division (Training) Activated 31 January 1968 at Waukegan, Illinois Location changed 15 December 1992 to Fort Sheridan, Illinois Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 85th Division (Exercise) Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support) Headquarters 1st Brigade, 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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Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
