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2d Battalion, 325th Infantry(436 total words in this text)(2159 Reads)  Organized 1 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Demobilized 18 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Company B, 325th Infantry, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division) Organized in January 1922 at Columbus, Georgia Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Company B, 325th Glider Infantry Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Company B, 325th Infantry (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps) Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as Company B, 325th Airborne Infantry Inactivated 1 September 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Airborne Battle Group, 325th Infantry Redesignated 6 March 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 325th Infantry, and assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 25 May 1964 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 2d Battalion 325th Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: * St. Mihiel; * Meuse-Argonne; * Lorraine 1918 World War II: * Sicily; * Naples-Foggia; * Normandy (with arrowhead); * Rhineland (with arrowhead); * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe Armed Forces Expeditions: * Dominican Republic; * Grenada Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations * Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for STE. MERE EGLISE * Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA * Army Superior Unit Award for 1987-1988 * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for STE. MERE EGLISE * French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COTENTIN * French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere * Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class) for NIJMEGEN 1944 * Netherlands Orange Lanyard * Belgian Fourragere 1940 * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES * Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM AND GERMANY |
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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. |
