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101st Chemical Company(152 total words in this text)(4578 Reads)  Activated 11 July 1942 at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland Redesignated 20 September 1943 as the 101st Chemical Processing Company Inactivated 30 November 1945 in the Philippine Islands Consolidated 16 August 1983 with the 101st Chemical Detachment (active) (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 101st Chemical Company ANNEX Constituted 18 April 1967 in the Regular Army as the 101st Chemical Detachment Activated 25 August 1967 at Fort Riley, Kansas Inactivated 18 December 1967 at Fort Riley, Kansas Activated 16 September 1979 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 101st Chemical Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit Armed Forces Expeditions: Grenada Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for PACIFIC THEATER |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
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. |
