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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice -- Baruch Spinoza |
9th Engineer Battalion(353 total words in this text)(1879 Reads)  Organized 21 May 1917 at Camp Newton D. Baker, Texas Reorganized and redesignated in July 1917 as the 9th Engineers Assigned 27 November 1917 to the 15th Cavalry Division Relieved 22 May 1919 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division Battalion (less Company A) inactivated 1 October 1921 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Assigned 24 March 1923 to the 2d Cavalry Division (Company A inactivated 19 April 1930 at Fort Riley, Kansas) Activated 1 November 1941 at Fort Riley, Kansas Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1942 as the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 2d Cavalry Division and assigned to the 9th Armored Division Inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Redesignated 17 December 1951 as the 9th Engineer Combat Battalion and relieved from assignment to the 9th Armored Division Activated 21 January 1952 at Fort Lewis, Washington Redesignated 10 June 1953 as the 9th Engineer Battalion Assigned 16 October 1991 to the 3d Infantry Division Inactivated 15 August 1992 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Infantry Division and activated in Germany 9th Engineer Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Headquarters Company entitled to: Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Company A entitled to: Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ-KUWAIT Company B entitled to: Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES Company C entitled to: Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BASTOGNE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm for BASTOGNE; cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at BASTOGNE |
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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. |
