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20th Infantry(284 total words in this text)(1830 Reads)  Organized 6 June 1862 at Fort Independence, Massachusetts Reorganized and redesignated 6 December 1866 as the 20th Infantry Assigned 9 July 1918 to the 10th Division Relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 10th Division Assigned 18 September 1920 to the 2d Division Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division and assigned to the 6th Division (later redesignated as the 6th Infantry Division) Inactivated 10 January 1949 in Korea Activated 4 October 1950 at Fort Ord, California Relieved 3 April 1956 from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division Reorganized 15 November 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 August 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 20th Infantry Honors Campaign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 War with Spain: Santiago Philippine Insurrection: Manila; Luzon 1901 World War II: New Guinea; Luzon (with arrowhead) Vietnam: 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; Cease-Fire Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MAFFIN BAY Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CABARUAN HILLS Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MUNOZ Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1972 Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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1657:
English Admiral Robert Blake fights his last battle when he destroys the Spanish fleet in Santa Cruz Bay.
1775: British troops begin the siege of Boston. 1809: Napoleon defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. 1861: Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union. 1945: Allied bombers in Italy begin a three-day attack on the bridges over the rivers Adige and Brenta to cut off German lines of retreat on the peninsula. 1945: Soviet troops begin their attack on Berlin. 1967: U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War. 1970: In a televised speech, President Nixon pledges to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops over the next year "based entirely on the progress" of the Vietnamization program. |
