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1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery(370 total words in this text)(3542 Reads)  Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Battery A, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Activated 6 January 1942 at Pine Camp, New York, as an element of the 4th Armored Division Converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Troop A, 94th Constabulary Squadron, an element of the 11th Constabulary Regiment Converted and redesignated 6 January 1948 as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery Battalion (94th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently relieved from assignment to the 11th Constabulary Regiment) Inactivated 20 May 1949 in Germany; concurrently redesignated as Battery A, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Armored Division Activated 15 June 1954 at Fort Hood, Texas Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Artillery Assigned 19 June 1963 to the 4th Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 25 June 1963 in Germany Relieved 10 May 1971 from assignment to the 4th Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1986 as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery, and remained assigned to the 1st Armored Division (remainder of battalion concurrently inactivated) Inactivated 15 January 1992 in Germany Activated 16 July 1995 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2000 as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated) 1st Battalion 94th Field Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: *Normandy; *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA *Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996 *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for MOSELLE RIVER *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere |
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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. |
