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175th Engineer Company(176 total words in this text)(3315 Reads)  Activated 3 August 1944 in Algeria Inactivated 19 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 21 January 1955 as the 175th Engineer Company and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 10 March 1955 in Germany Inactivated 25 July 1963 in Germany Assigned 10 September 1965 to the 196th Infantry Brigade Activated 15 September 1965 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts Inactivated 8 December 1967 in Vietnam Activated 31 May 1972 in Vietnam Inactivated 29 June 1972 in Vietnam and relieved from assignment to the 196th Infantry Brigade Activated 2 August 1988 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 175th Engineer Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-EAME: Southern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Cease-Fire Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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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. |
