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2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery(447 total words in this text)(1972 Reads)  Organized in August 1907 at Fort Mott, New Jersey Reorganized and redesignated in August 1916 as the 1st Company, Fort Mills [Philippine Islands] Reorganized and redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 138th Company, Coast Artillery Corps Inactivated 18 December 1922 in the Philippine Islands Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery C, 43d Coast Artillery Disbanded 14 June 1944 Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Missile Battalion, 43d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Redmond, Washington Inactivated 25 March 1966 at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Missile Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery Redesignated 1 January 1984 as the 2d Battalion, 43d Air Defense Artillery, and activated at Fort Bliss, Texas ANNEX Constituted 16 December 1940 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 61st Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division Activated 3 January 1941 at Fort Bliss, Texas 2d Battalion 43d Air Defense Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918 World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe; Central Pacific; Guadalcanal; Northern Solomons; * New Guinea; * Bismarck Archipelago; * Leyte (with arrowhead); * Luzon Korean War: * UN Defensive; * UN Offensive; * CCF Intervention; * First UN Counteroffensive; * CCF Spring Offensive; * UN Summer-Fall Offensive; * Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; * Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for GUADALCANAL Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for NAM RIVER * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PAKCHON, KOREA Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for WONJU-HWACHON * Valorous Unit Award for SAUDI ARABIA AND BAHRAIN Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM * Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for WAEGWAN-TAEGU * Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA |
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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. |
