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1st Battalion, 32d Infantry(355 total words in this text)(2012 Reads)  Organized 7 August 1916 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (32d Infantry assigned 31 July 1918 to the 16th Division; relieved 8 March 1919 from assignment to the 16th Division) Inactivated 13 September 1921 at Vancouver Barracks, Washington Activated 1 July 1940 at Camp Ord, California, as an element of the 7th Division (later redesignated as the 7th Infantry Division) Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 32d 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, 32d Infantry Relieved 31 March 1971 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division Inactivated 21 October 1978 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division Assigned 7 August 1980 to the 7th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Ord, California Inactivated 10 June 1987 at Fort Ord, California, and relieved from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 10th Mountain Division and activated at Fort Drum, New York 1st Battalion 32d Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: *Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead); *Eastern Mandates; *Leyte (with arrowhead); *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 CENTRAL KOREA *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KUMHWA *Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for INCHON *Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for CHOSIN RESERVOIR *Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) for HWACHON RESERVOIR *Navy Unit Commendation for PANMUNJOM *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 1945-1948; 1953-1971 |
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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. |
