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Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company C, 47th Infantry
Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York (47th Infantry assigned 19 November 1917 to the 4th Division) Inactivated 22 September 1921 at Camp Lewis, Washington (47th Infantry relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 7th Division; assigned 1 August 1940 to the 9th Division [later redesignated as the 9th Infantry Division]) Activated 10 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Inactivated 31 December 1946 in Germany Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey Inactivated 1 December 1957 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 47th Infantry Withdrawn 10 April 1959 from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the 81st Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battle Group activated 1 May 1959 with Headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia Inactivated 1 April 1963 at Atlanta, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 81st Infantry Division Redesignated 1 February 1966 as the 3d Battalion, 47th Infantry; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army, assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas Inactivated 1 August 1969 at Fort Riley, Kansas Activated 21 March 1973 at Fort Lewis, Washington Relieved 16 February 1991 from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division and assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade Inactivated 14 January 1994 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade Headquarters transferred 2 October 1996 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri 3d Battalion 47th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: * Aisne-Marne; * St. Mihiel; * Meuse-Argonne; * Champagne 1918; * Lorraine 1918 World War II: * Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); * Tunisia; * Sicily; * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe Vietnam: * Counteroffensive, Phase II; * Counteroffensive, Phase III; * Tet Counteroffensive; * Counteroffensive, Phase IV; * Counteroffensive, Phase V; * Counteroffensive, Phase VI; * Tet 69/Counteroffensive; * Summer-Fall 1969 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for CHERBOURG Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HAGUE PENINSULA Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ROETGEN, GERMANY * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for NOTHBERG, GERMANY Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for FREUZENBERG CASTLE * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for REMAGEN, GERMANY Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for OBERKIRCHEN, GERMANY * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MEKONG DELTA * Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for CHERBOURG * Belgian Fourragere 1940 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at the MEUSE RIVER * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES * Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1967-1968 *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1969 *Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1967-1969 |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |