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2d Battalion, 37th Armor(407 total words in this text)(2166 Reads)  Activated 15 April 1941 at Pine Camp, New York Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company B, 37th Armored Regiment Reorganized and redesignated 10 September 1943 as Company B, 37th Tank Battalion Converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Troop B, 37th Constabulary Squadron, an element of the 3d Constabulary Regiment Inactivated 20 September 1947 in Germany, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Constabulary Regiment Converted and redesignated 11 December 1951 as Company B, 37th Tank Battalion (37th Tank Battalion assigned 25 February 1953 to the 4th Armored Division) Activated 15 June 1954 at Fort Hood, Texas Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Medium Tank Battalion, 37th Armor Assigned 1 July 1957 to the 2d Armored Division and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Relieved 1 July 1963 from assignment to the 2d Armored Division and assigned to the 4th Armored Division Reorganized and redesignated 26 August 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 37th Armor Relieved 10 May 1971 from assignment to the 4th Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division Relieved 28 February 1983 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division Inactivated 16 February 1988 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division Assigned 16 April 1988 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany Relieved 17 January 1992 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division Inactivated 15 February 1996 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 17 February 1997 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany 2d Battalion 37th Armor Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe; Western Pacific; Leyte; Ryukyus Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for MOSELLE RIVER *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere |
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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. |
