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I have always regarded the forward edge of battle as the most exclusive club in the world. -- Sir Brian Harrock |
177th Finance Battalion(117 total words in this text)(3363 Reads)  Activated 1 November 1944 in New Guinea Inactivated 15 April 1946 in Australia Redesignated 1 July 1966 as the 177th Finance Section and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 26 July 1966 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts Inactivated 25 July 1968 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts Redesignated 17 October 1986 as the 177th Finance Support Unit and activated in Korea Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1993 as the 177th Finance Battalion 177th Finance Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription Decorations None |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
