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1st Battalion, 33d Armor(381 total words in this text)(2175 Reads)  Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company A, 33d Armored Regiment Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany Redesignated 7 July 1947 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky Reorganized and redesignated 30 July 1948 as Company D, 33d Medium Tank Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1955 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 33d Armor, and remained assigned to the 3d Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Armor Inactivated 16 February 1987 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division Activated 16 April 1987 at Fort Lewis, Washington Assigned 15 August 1988 to the 9th Infantry Division Inactivated 28 September 1990 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1991 to the 199th Infantry Brigade and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington Relieved 16 July 1992 from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade Inactivated 14 January 1994 at Fort Polk, Louisiana Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington 1st Battalion 33d Armor Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe Decorations * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HASTENRATH-SCHERPENSEEL * French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II for MONS Belgian Fourragere 1940 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM 1944 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM 1945 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action on the MEUSE RIVER |
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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. |
