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If there is one thing you can count on in war it is that there is nothing you can count on in war. -- Richard M. Watt |
1st Battalion, 17th Infantry(415 total words in this text)(2326 Reads)  Organized 6 July 1861 at Fort Preble, Maine Reorganized and redesignated 13 December 1866 as Company A, 17th Infantry Consolidated 1 June 1869 with Company A, 44th Infantry, Veteran Reserve Corps (constituted 21 September 1866), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 17th Infantry (17th Infantry assigned 5 July 1918 to the 11th Division; relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 11th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division [later redesignated as the 7th Infantry Division]) Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 17th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 7th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Relieved 31 March 1971 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division Inactivated 16 August 1986 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division Assigned 16 November 1986 to the 6th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Richardson, Alaska Relieved 16 April 1998 from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division and assigned to the 172d Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion 17th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Civil War: *Peninsula; *Manassas; *Antietam; *Fredericksburg; *Chancellorsville; *Gettysburg; *Wilderness; *Spotsylvania; *Cold Harbor; *Petersburg; *Virginia 1862; *Virginia 1863 Indian Wars: Little Big Horn; *Pine Ridge; *North Dakota 1872 War with Spain: *Santiago Philippine Insurrection: Manila; *Malolos; *San Isidro; *Tarlac; Mindanao; *Luzon 1899; *Luzon 1900 Mexican Expedition: *Mexico 1916-1917 World War II: *Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead); *Eastern Mandates (with arrowhead); *Leyte; *Ryukyus (with arrowhead) 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 Decorations *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LEYTE *Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for INCHON *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953 *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953 *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1945-1948; 1953-1971 |
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1775:
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. |
