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Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs -- Ambrose Bierce |
82d Aviation(117 total words in this text)(1895 Reads)  Reorganized and redesignated 7 December 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82d Aviation Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Relieved 15 January 1987 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 82d Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System 82d Aviation Honors Campaign Participation Credit Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Grenada; Panama Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
