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The moral is to the physical as three to one -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
13th Finance Group(230 total words in this text)(4646 Reads)  Activated 7 December 1942 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana Redesignated 22 March 1943 as the 13th Finance Disbursing Section Inactivated 20 December 1945 in Italy Activated 31 January 1947 in Germany Inactivated 20 July 1947 in Germany Activated 13 December 1950 in Japan Allotted 19 December 1950 to the Regular Army Reorganized and redesignated 5 April 1965 as the 13th Finance Section Inactivated 20 March 1972 in Vietnam Activated 21 April 1978 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1984 as the 13th Finance Center Inactivated 16 January 1987 in Germany Redesignated 17 August 1990 as the 13th Finance Support Unit and activated in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 17 June 1993 as the 13th Finance Group 13th Finance Group Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1965-1966 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1969- 1970 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
