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1st Battalion, 30th Infantry(302 total words in this text)(2101 Reads)  Organized 16 March 1901 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California (30th Infantry assigned 21 November 1917 to the 3d Division; relieved 12 January 1940 from assignment to the 3d Division; assigned 15 May 1940 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division]; relieved 6 April 1951 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; assigned 2 December 1954 to the 3d Infantry Division) Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 30th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 3d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Reorganized and redesignated 10 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 16 August 1992 to the 3d Infantry Division and activated in Germany Inactivated 15 January 1994 in Germany Activated 16 February 1996 at Fort Benning, Georgia 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Philippine Insurrection: Mindoro 1901 World War I: *Aisne; *Champagne-Marne; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Champagne 1918 World War II: *Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); *Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Naples-Foggia; *Anzio (with arrowhead); *Rome-Arno; *Southern France (with arrowhead); *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SICILY Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MOUNT ROTUNDO *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BESANCON, FRANCE *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR *Army Superior Unit Award for 1996 *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for CHAMPAGNE-MARNE *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COLMAR *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
