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When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own. -- George C. Marshall |
15th Air Defense Artillery Detachment(94 total words in this text)(2082 Reads)  Activated 11 February 1961 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Inactivated 15 September 1966 in Germany Activated 1 May 1969 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 12 September 1970 as the 15th United States Army Artillery Detachment Inactivated 15 October 1988 in Germany Activated 26 February 1998 in Germany as the 15th Air Defense Artillery Detachment 15th Air Defense Artillery Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit None 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
