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There can be no peace but that which is forced by the sword. -- Henry Halleck |
228th Combat Support Hospital(132 total words in this text)(4504 Reads)  Redesignated 31 May 1943 as the 30th Portable Surgical Hospital Activated 7 June 1943 at Camp Bowie, Texas Inactivated 31 October 1945 in Japan Redesignated 16 October 1993 as the 30th Surgical Hospital Redesignated 1 August 1996 as the 228th Combat Support Hospital, withdrawn from the Regular Army, and allotted to the Army Reserve Activated 16 January 2001 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas 228th Combat Support Hospital Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead); Leyte; Luzon Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LOS NEGROS ISLAND Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
