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63d Armor(253 total words in this text)(1708 Reads)  Activated 15 August 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as the 745th Tank Battalion, Medium Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 745th Tank Battalion Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 14 September 1948 as the 63d Heavy Tank Battalion, allotted to the Regular Army, and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division Activated 10 October 1948 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1950 as the 63d Tank Battalion Inactivated15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 63d Armor, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 September 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 63d Armor Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations Army Superior Unit Award for 1988 Army Superior Unit Award for 1990 Army Superior Unit Award for 1996-1997 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY Belgian Fourragere 1940 Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
