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52d Aviation(495 total words in this text)(1837 Reads)  Activated 10 June 1942 at Compton, California Redesignated 1 July 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 204th Quartermaster Gas Supply Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 10 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 204th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile Inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 204th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion; concurrently activated at Fort Benning, Georgia Redesignated 20 May 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 204th Transportation Truck Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Transportation Truck Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Transportation Battalion Inactivated 10 May 1955 in Japan Redesignated 13 October 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Transportation Battalion Activated 7 November 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Converted and redesignated 22 December 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1965 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 25 November 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 21 June 1979 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Inactivated 16 October 1988 in Korea Redesignated 16 January 1996 as the 52d Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System 52d Aviation Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley Korean War: UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Vietnam: Advisory; Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for DAK TO DISTRICT Valorous Unit Award for PLEI ME Valorous Unit Award for DUC CO Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1952 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1951-1953 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1963-1966 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969-1970 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1970 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1970-1972 Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal for VIETNAM 1970 Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal for VIETNAM 1971 |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
