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    Valor is superior to number.

    -- Vegetius

    5th Battalion, 101st Aviation

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    Constituted 16 September 1987 in the Regular Army as the 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky

    5th Battalion
    101st Aviation Honors

    Campaign Participation Credit

    Korean War: 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: 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

    Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

    Decorations

    Valorous Unit Award for THUA THIEN PROVINCE

    Valorous Unit Award for TCHEPONE

    * Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA

    Army Superior Unit Award for 1983-1984
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    1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas.

    1898: The United States declares war on Spain.

    1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey.

    1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory.

    1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.

    1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands.


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