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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. -- Ernest Miller Hemmingway |
33d Finance Battalion(114 total words in this text)(2748 Reads)  Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Lewis, Washington Inactivated 19 September 1968 in Vietnam Redesignated 1 April 1985 as the 33d Finance Center and activated at Fort Drum, New York Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1988 as the 33d Finance Support Unit Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1992 as the 33d Finance Battalion 33d Finance Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations None |
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1759:
British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1865: Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama. 1924: The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers Bonus Bill. 1942: In retaliation for the British raid on Lubeck, German bombers strike Exeter and later Bath, Norwick, York, and other "medieval-city centres." Almost 1,000 English civilians are killed in the bombing attacks nicknamed "Baedeker Raids." 1945: The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin. 1950: Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists. 1975: At a speech at Tulane University, President Gerald Ford says the Vietnam War is finished as far as America is concerned. This was devastating news to the South Vietnamese, who were desperately pleading for U.S. support as the North Vietnamese surrounded Saigon for the final assault on the capital city. |
