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Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support)(255 total words in this text)(3597 Reads)  Organized September-October 1917 in Arkansas as the 15th Reserve Field Signal Battalion Ordered into active military service 5 October 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas; concurrently redesignated as the 312th Field Signal Battalion and assigned to the 87th Division Demobilized 2 April 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 4 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 87th Signal Company (organized in December 1921 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Jackson, Mississippi) and consolidated unit designated as the 87th Signal Company, an element of the 87th Division (later redesignated as the 87th Infantry Division) Ordered into active military service 15 December 1942 and reorganized at Camp McCain, Mississippi Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Fort Benning, Georgia Activated 1 March 1947 at Birmingham, Alabama (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 30 April 1954 at Birmingham, Alabama 87th Signal Company consolidated 17 October 1999 with Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Exercise) (activated 1 October 1993 at Fort Gillem, Georgia); consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) and allotted to the Regular Army at Fort Stewart, Georgia Headquarters 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Streamer without inscription World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations None |
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1862:
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. |
