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    War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

    -- General William T. Sherman

    41st Engineer Battalion

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    Constituted 27 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 126th Engineer Mountain Battalion

    Activated 14 September 1942 at Camp Carson, Colorado

    Reorganized and redesignated (less Company A) 15 July 1943 as the 126th Engineer Light Combat Battalion and assigned to the 10th Light Division (later redesignated as the 10th Mountain Division) (Company A, 126th Engineer Mountain Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 226th Engineer Motorized Company)

    Reorganized and redesignated 6 November 1944 as the 126th Engineer Mountain Battalion (226th Engineer Motorized Company concurrently redesignated as Company D, 126th Engineer Mountain Battalion)

    Inactivated 21 November 1945 at Camp Carson, Colorado

    Redesignated 18 June 1948 as the 41st Engineer Combat Battalion

    Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army

    Reorganized and redesignated 15 June 1954 as the 41st Engineer Battalion

    Inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia

    Activated 2 September 1985 at Fort Drum, New York

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    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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