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Constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company B, 9th Infantry
Organized 26 March 1855 at Fort Monroe, Virginia Consolidated in June 1869 with Company B, 27th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 9th Infantry (9th Infantry assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division]) Inactivated 20 June 1957 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 9th Infantry Assigned 17 March 1958 to the 2d Infantry Division Activated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia (organic elements [constituted 4 March 1958] concurrently activated) Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 9th Infantry Inactivated 21 June 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Activated 15 August 1975 in Korea Inactivated 15 December 1979 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division Assigned 29 April 1983 to the 7th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Ord, California Relieved 16 August 1995 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division ANNEX Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 2d Battalion, 18th Infantry Organized in October 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company B, 27th Infantry 2d Battalion 9th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Civil War: * Murfreesborough; * Chickamauga; * Chattanooga; * Atlanta; * Kentucky 1862; * Mississippi 1862; * Tennessee 1863; * Georgia 1864 Indian Wars: Little Big Horn; * Washington 1856; * Washington 1858; * Wyoming 1866; * Wyoming 1867 War with Spain: * Santiago China Relief Expedition: * Tientsin; * Yang-tsun; * Peking Philippine Insurrection: * Malolos; San Isidro; * Zapote River; * Tarlac; * Luzon 1899; * Luzon 1900; Samar 1901 World War I: * Aisne; * Aisne-Marne; * St. Mihiel; * Meuse-Argonne; * Ile de France 1918; * Lorraine 1918 World War II: * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe Korean War: * UN Defensive; * UN Offensive; * CCF Intervention; * First UN Counteroffensive; * CCF Spring Offensive; * UN Summer-Fall Offensive; * Second Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; * Third Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer 1953 Armed Forces Expeditions: * Panama Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BREST, FRANCE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SIEGFRIED LINE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON * Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for HWACHON RESERVOIR * Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for CHATEAU THIERRY * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE * French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere * Luxembourg Croix de Guerre for LUXEMBOURG * 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 at ELSENBORN CREST * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA |
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Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1864: General Grant bans the trading of prisoners. 1864: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina, in an attempt to recapture ports lost to the Union two years before. 1941: The Yugoslav army, encircled in Bosnia, surrenders to Germany and signs a formal capitulation in Belgrade. 1945: U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany. 1951: Operation DAUNTLESS continued to advance against weakened communist resistance in the 24th and 25th Infantry Division zones. 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. 1975: Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. |