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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war -- John Andrew Holmes |
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 457th Chemical Battalion(134 total words in this text)(2728 Reads)  Activated 3 December 1948 at Atlanta, Georgia Inactivated 1 November 1949 at Atlanta, Georgia Activated 1 January 1952 at Charleston, South Carolina (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 457th Chemical Battalion Location changed January 1966 to Greenville, South Carolina Ordered into active military service 21 November 1990 at Greenville, South Carolina; released from active military service 5 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 457th Chemical Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit Southwest Asia: Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations None |
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U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
1859: Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreats across the River Sesia in Italy. 1864: Union troops secure a crucial pass during the Atlanta campaign. In the spring and summer of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston conducted a slow and methodical campaign to seize control of Atlanta. 1915: German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois. 1936: Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country. 1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy. 1945: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. 1951: Three hundred and twelve Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy planes hit Sinuiju Airfield in one of the largest air raids of the war. 1955: Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |
