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    -- General George Patton Jr

    1st Battalion, 52d Aviation

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    Constituted 16 January 1996 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 52d Aviation, and activated in Korea

    1st Battalion
    52d Aviation Honors

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    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

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    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1952
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    This Day in History
    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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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