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47th Combat Support Hospital(161 total words in this text)(2134 Reads)  Redesignated 31 May 1943 as the 47th Portable Surgical Hospital Activated 7 June 1943 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri Inactivated 3 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 24 November 1952 as the 47th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital Activated 2 February 1953 in Korea Reorganized and redesignated 25 March 1953 as the 47th Surgical Hospital Inactivated 15 November 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas Activated 10 January 1968 at Fort Lewis, Washington Reorganized and redesignated 21 May 1973 as the 47th Combat Support Hospital 47th Combat Support Hospital Campaign Participation Credit World War II: China Defensive Korean War: Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
