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52d Infantry(554 total words in this text)(2033 Reads)  Organized 16 June 1917 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia Assigned 16 November 1917 to the 6th Division Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Camp Grant, Illinois Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 9th Division Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 6th Division Relieved 1 October 1940 from assignment to the 6th Division Redesignated 15 July 1942 as the 52d Armored Infantry, assigned to the 9th Armored Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas Regiment broken up 9 October 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as elements of the 9th Armored Division as follows: 52d Armored Infantry (less 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions) as the 52d Armored Infantry Battalion 1st Battalion as the 60th Armored Infantry Battalion 2d Battalion as the 27th Armored Infantry Battalion 3d Battalion disbanded Battalions inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Relieved 14 September 1950 from assignment to the 9th Armored Division; concurrently consolidated to form the 52d Infantry and assigned to the 71st Infantry Division Relieved 25 February 1953 from assignment to the 71st Infantry Division; regiment concurrently broken up and its elements redesignated as elements of the 9th Armored Division as follows: 52d Infantry (less 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions) as the 52d Armored Infantry Battalion 1st Battalion as the 560th Armored Infantry Battalion 2d Battalion as the 527th Armored Infantry Battalion Former 3d Battalion reconstituted as the 528th Armored Infantry Battalion After 25 February 1953 the above units underwent changes as follows: 52d Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 23 July 1956 from assignment to the 9th Armored Division; activated 15 August 1956 in Italy; inactivated 24 June 1958 in Italy 560th, 527th, and 528th Armored Infantry Battalions relieved 1 March 1957 from assignment to the 9th Armored Division 52d, 560th, 527th, and 528th Armored Infantry Battalions consolidated 1 July 1959 to form the 52d Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 January 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 52d Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Meuse-Argonne; Alsace 1918 World War II: 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; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LUXEMBOURG Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ST. VITH Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BASTOGNE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for SAIGON - TET OFFENSIVE Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 Army Superior Unit Award for 1988 Army Superior Unit Award for 1991 Army Superior Unit Award for 2000 Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm for BASTOGNE; cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Bastogne |
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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). |
