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1st Battalion, 23d Infantry(453 total words in this text)(2176 Reads)  Organized 8 July 1861 at Fort Trumbull, Connecticut Redesignated 30 April 1862 as Company A, 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 23d Infantry (23d Infantry assigned 22 September 1917 to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division]) Reorganized and redesignated 20 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 23d Infantry, and remained assigned to the 2d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Relieved 16 December 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 23d Infantry, and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division Inactivated 16 December 1986 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington 1st Battalion 23d 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; Arizona 1866; *Idaho 1868 War with Spain: Manila Philippine Insurrection: Manila; *Malolos; *Mindanao; Jolo; Jolo 1903 World War I: *Aisne; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Ile de France 1918; *Lorraine 1918 World War II: *Normandy; *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 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BREST, FRANCE *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for WIRTZFELD, BELGIUM Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KRINKELTER WALD, BELGIUM Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ST. VITH Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TWIN TUNNELS *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CHIPYONG-NI *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON *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 *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 1950-1952 *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953 *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953 |
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1813:
U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
1859: Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreats across the River Sesia in Italy. 1864: Union troops secure a crucial pass during the Atlanta campaign. In the spring and summer of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston conducted a slow and methodical campaign to seize control of Atlanta. 1915: German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois. 1936: Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country. 1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy. 1945: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. 1951: Three hundred and twelve Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy planes hit Sinuiju Airfield in one of the largest air raids of the war. 1955: Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |
