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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. -- General William T. Sherman |
Constituted 2 February 1901 in the Regular Army as Company E, 26th Infantry
Organized 6 March 1901 at Fort McPherson, Georgia Redesignated 29 May 1901 as Company A, 27th Infantry (27th Infantry assigned 1 March 1921 to the Hawaiian Division; relieved 1 October 1941 from assignment to the Hawaiian Division and assigned to the 25th Infantry Division) Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 27th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 25th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Reorganized and redesignated 26 August 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry 1st Battalion 27th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Philippine Insurrection: * Mindanao World War I: * Siberia 1918; * Siberia 1919 World War II: * Central Pacific; * Guadalcanal ; * Northern Solomons (with arrowhead); * Luzon 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 Vietnam: * Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase II; * 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 Decorations * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SANGNYONG-NI * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TAEGU Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HAN RIVER * Valorous Unit Award for CU CHI DISTRICT * Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for MASAN-CHINJU * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for MUNSAN-NI * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA * Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1966-1968 * Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1968-1970 * Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1966-1970 |
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1808:
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. |