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Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery C, 320th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division
Organized 29 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Demobilized 12 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Battery C, 320th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division) Organized in December 1921 at Columbia, South Carolina Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery C, 320th Field Artillery Battalion Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps) Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army Inactivated 15 December 1948 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion relieved 14 December 1950 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division) Redesignated 1 August 1951 as Battery C, 320th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1957 as Battery C, 320th Artillery, and assigned to the 11th Airborne Division Inactivated 1 July 1958 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 11th Airborne Division Assigned 1 July 1960 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Inactivated 25 May 1964 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division Redesignated 3 July 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 320th Artillery, and assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 15 July 1968 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Inactivated 15 December 1969 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Assigned 2 October 1986 to the 101st Airborne Division and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky 3d Battalion 320th Field Artillery Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918 World War II: *Sicily; *Naples-Foggia; *Normandy (with arrowhead); *Rhineland (with arrowhead); *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for STE. MERE EGLISE *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COTENTIN *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere *Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for NIJMEGEN 1944 *Netherlands Orange Lanyard *Belgian Fourragere 1940 *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM AND GERMANY |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 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. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 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. |