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2d Battalion, 70th Armor(379 total words in this text)(2451 Reads)  Inactivated 1 June 1946 in Germany Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky Reorganized and redesignated 14 June 1948 as Company B, 70th Medium Tank Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1948 as Company B, 70th Heavy Tank Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1950 as Company B, 70th Tank Battalion (70th Tank Battalion assigned 10 November 1951 to the 1st Cavalry Division) Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division Redesignated 21 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 70th Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion assigned 1 February 1963 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated in Germany Inactivated 15 April 1970 at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas Inactivated 15 October 1987 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division Assigned 16 December 1987 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 December 1993 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Armored Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas 2d Battalion 70th Armor Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Korean War: *UN Defensive; *UN Offensive; *CCF Intervention; *First UN Counteroffensive; *CCF Spring Offensive; *UN Summer-Fall Offensive; *Second Korean Winter Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COTENTIN PENINSULA Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HURTGEN FOREST *Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ *Belgian Fourragere 1940 *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for actions in Belgium *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for TAEGU *Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA |
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1657:
English Admiral Robert Blake fights his last battle when he destroys the Spanish fleet in Santa Cruz Bay.
1775: British troops begin the siege of Boston. 1809: Napoleon defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. 1861: Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union. 1945: Allied bombers in Italy begin a three-day attack on the bridges over the rivers Adige and Brenta to cut off German lines of retreat on the peninsula. 1945: Soviet troops begin their attack on Berlin. 1967: U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War. 1970: In a televised speech, President Nixon pledges to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops over the next year "based entirely on the progress" of the Vietnamization program. |
