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The mind of the enemy and the will of his leaders is a target of far more importance than the bodies of his troops. -- Brigadier General S.B. Griffith |
Company C, 52d Infantry(358 total words in this text)(1821 Reads)  Organized 16 June 1917 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia (52d Infantry assigned 16 November 1917 to the 6th Division) Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Camp Grant, Illinois (52d Infantry 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 Company C, 52d Armored Infantry, an element of the 9th Armored Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas Reorganized and redesignated 9 October 1943 as Company C, 60th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 9th Armored Division Inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Redesignated 14 September 1950 as Company C, 52d Infantry, an element of the 71st Infantry Division Redesignated 25 February 1953 as Company C, 560th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 9th Armored Division (560th Armored Infantry Battalion relieved 1 March 1957 from assignment to the 9th Armored Division) Redesignated 1 July 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battle Group, 52d Infantry Redesignated 23 March 1966 as Company C, 52d Infantry Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Lewis, Washington Inactivated 15 August 1972 in Vietnam Assigned 16 September 2000 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington Company C 52d Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Meuse-Argonne; Alsace 1918 World War II-EAME: 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 SAIGON - TET OFFENSIVE Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 Army Superior Unit Award for 2000 |
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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. |
