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Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support)(372 total words in this text)(2026 Reads)  Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan Regiment (less 1st Battalion) demobilized 5 July 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan (1st Battalion demobilized 24 July 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio) Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 310th Engineers and assigned to the 85th Division (later redesignated as the 85th Infantry Division) Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Detroit, Michigan Reorganized and redesignated (less 2d Battalion) 31 March 1942 as the 310th Engineer Battalion (2d Battalion -- hereafter separate lineage) Ordered into active military service 15 May 1942 and reorganized at Camp Shelby, Mississippi Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 310th Engineer Combat Battalion Disbanded 25 August 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Reconstituted 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as the 310th Engineer Combat Battalion and assigned to the 85th Infantry Division Activated 3 January 1947 with Headquarters at Chicago, Illinois (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1953 as the 310th Engineer Battalion (Location of Headquarters changed 1 September 1955 to Rock Island, Illinois) Disbanded (less Companies A and B) 1 June 1959 at Rock Island, Illinois (Companies A and B -- hereafter separate lineages) Headquarters, 310th Engineer Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 85th Division (Training) Activated 31 January 1968 at Des Plaines, Illinois Location changed 1 September 1972 to Arlington Heights, Illinois; on 1 February 1992 to Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 85th Division (Exercise) Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support) and allotted to the Regular Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana Headquarters 3d Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918; Russia 1918; Russia 1919 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. |
