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Constituted 16 September 1987 in the Regular Army as the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
6th 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 Army Superior Unit Award for 1983-1984 |
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1738:
English parliament declares war on Spain.
1800: The USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope. 1814: The HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture the USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. 1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia. 1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass. 1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded. 1917: The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women. 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco. 1941: Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean. 1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz. |